What 𮔹 means
It represents the Zhuang word daek, meaning “grasshopper.” Sawndip adapts Chinese character forms to write Zhuang speech; this word has several written forms.
A Guangxi stone inscription dated 682 is the earliest example reported for Sawndip; Song-era accounts describe wider use. A Latin-based Zhuang script was introduced in 1955. These dates belong to the script, not to this spelling.
The Zhuang word has related forms for grasshopper in Bouyei, another Tai language, and Thai.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𮔹 look like a box?
Your font or app may not have a glyph for it. The text can still contain 𮔹 even when the display shows a missing-glyph box.
How to type 𮔹
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2E539, then Alt+X to get 𮔹.
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-2e539”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2e539, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𮔹CSS
\2E539How to type 𮔹 in HTML
Use `𮔹` in HTML source to represent this character.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𮔹
HTML hex
𮔹
CSS content
content: "\2E539";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AE%94%B9
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.