What 𮅜 means
Use GNOME’s hex entry: CtrlShiftU opens it.
Type 2E15C, then press Space or Enter. macOS’s built-in hexadecimal input handles only four digits, so it cannot enter this value.
What does 𮅜 mean?
It is a rare written form for 笳, an old wind instrument.
The Chinese book 槎庵小乘, a collection of music accounts, glosses 𮅜 as 笳. It describes a reed leaf rolled into a whistle and tells of frontier tunes moving homesick travelers and soldiers under siege.
A Song-era encyclopedia, 太平御览, describes a related reed-headed bamboo pipe as coming from northern peoples and entering Tang court music. The later text preserves a competing story of an exile who made the music while missing home; neither account settles who first created the instrument.
Who writes 𮅜
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𮅜 show up as a square?
Its font or fallback lacks a glyph for this character. Unicode display guidance calls for a missing-glyph mark when a character is unsupported; the text still contains 𮅜.
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How to type or find 𮅜
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- 胡笳 · 笳 · hujia · reed pipe · reed whistle
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𮅜\2E15CCodes and encoding1 code points
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