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𮎁

cjk unified ideograph-2e381

Dance Character

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𮎁 is a historical form of 舞, the Han character for dance. An old Chinese music book preserves it in ritual passages. The ancestry of 舞 reaches back to a dancer holding objects.

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What 𮎁 means

It carries the dance meaning of 舞.

Shang-dynasty oracle-bone inscriptions—early writing carved on bone and shell—show the ancestor as a dancer holding objects. That graph was borrowed for 無 (“not have”); 舞 added 舛 (feet) to mark dance. Readings vary: Mandarin wǔ; Japanese mai or mau; Korean mu; Vietnamese Chinese-character reading vũ.

Where does this form appear?

In a book from the Song dynasty about court music.

Scholar Chen Yang’s Le Shu uses 𮎁 in passages about ritual dance and ceremonial objects.

Historical variant; use 舞 in ordinary writing.

Who writes 𮎁

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𮎁 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 𮎁

Search it as
舞 · dance · hanzi · kanji · hanja · wǔ · mai · mu
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 2E381, then AltX to get 𮎁.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-2e381”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 2e381, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𮎁
CSS
\2E381
Microsoft Word
Type 2E381, then press Alt+X to convert the hexadecimal code into the character.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𮎁
HTML hex
𮎁
CSS content
content: "\2E381";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AE%8E%81
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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