What 𮣴 means
A name for a small spear.
𮣴 is a simplified graphic variant of 鋋. Fangyan, a Han-era book comparing regional words, lists it beside 鍦 and 𫓩 as a spear name in Wu, Yang, Jiang, Huai, southern Chu and the Five Lakes region. A Han-era poem also uses 鋋 as a verb meaning “to stab.”
Questions people ask
1Why does 𮣴 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 𮣴
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2E8F4, then Alt+X to get 𮣴.
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-2e8f4”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2e8f4, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𮣴CSS
\2E8F4Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𮣴
HTML hex
𮣴
CSS content
content: "\2E8F4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AE%A3%B4
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.