What 𮑆 means
It belongs to Sawndip; its code-point label is not a gloss.
Unicode traces this glyph to the 1989 Ancient Zhuang Character Dictionary. Sawndip adapts Chinese characters and their parts to write Zhuang speech; the record locates 𮑆 in that script, but this link alone gives no Zhuang word.
The earliest known Sawndip example is a cliff inscription at Shanglin dated 682 CE; that dates the script, not 𮑆. Song-era accounts place it in local legal papers. Fieldwork in 2006–2009 found ritual books, songs and stories among its common uses; local manuscripts vary in shape and reading.
Who writes 𮑆
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𮑆 show as a box?
As of 2026, font listings include Hanazono Mincho C and BabelStone Han for 𮑆; a font without it may show a missing-glyph box.
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How to type or find 𮑆
- Search it as
- sawndip
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𮑆\2E446Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.