What 𮬈 means
It is a written variant of 龜, “turtle” or “tortoise.”
It is cited in 菩薩從兜術天降神母胎説廣普經, a Chinese Buddhist text about the Buddha teaching while in the womb.
Why does 𮬈 have a fish radical?
The fish radical is its dictionary filing component, not its definition.
A radical is the part a dictionary uses to group a character. The Unicode chart files 𮬈 under 魚; the cited reading is 龜.
Who writes 𮬈
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Worth knowing
- If 𮬈 appears as a box, your font fallback lacks its glyph. The 2017 Hanazono Mincho AFDKO font covers CJK Extension F, which includes this character.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𮬈 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 𮬈
- Search it as
- 龜 · turtle · tortoise
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𮬈\2EB08Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

