What 𮮧 means
It marked the start and stop of work duties. The Zhouli, a classical Chinese manual of ritual and government, assigns 鼛鼓 to labor service; its commentary explains that the calls signaled when work began and stopped. A poem in the Book of Odes, a classical Chinese poetry collection, writes 鼛 in a scene of workers building walls.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𮮧 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 𮮧
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2EBA7, then Alt+X to get 𮮧.
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-2eba7”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2eba7, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𮮧CSS
\2EBA7Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𮮧
HTML hex
𮮧
CSS content
content: "\2EBA7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AE%AE%A7
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.