Han character 𮲫

The word and language around it decide its use.

𮲫 is a written variant with different jobs in Chinese medical and chemical writing and Korean Hanja (Chinese characters used in Korean writing). In traditional Chinese medicine it appears in a disease term as a variant of 脱/脫. In chemistry and modern medicine it appears in terms written today with 酰, including amide and ureide, two groups of nitrogen-containing compounds. A Korean Hanja use reads it 세.

Read the full compound and identify the language before assigning a meaning; the glyph by itself does not settle the reading.

Its written uses come from separate traditions

The Siku Quanshu, a large Chinese imperial book collection, preserves 𮲫血 in 景岳全書, a medical compendium by Zhang Jiebin. The work was completed in 1624; that dates the book, while the exact 𮲫 spelling is documented in its Siku copy. A 1997 dictionary of traditional Chinese medicine gives the corresponding term as 脱血; the Siku copy also has 虚𮲫 where other editions use 虚脱.

Chinese chemistry and medicine articles from 1960–1993 use it in terms now written with 酰, including 𮲫胺 / 酰胺 (amide) and 𮲫脲 / 酰脲 (ureide). A Korean Hanja source shows an extra 𮲫 in 洗𮲫腆; it is read 세 there, and the base expression means obtaining clean, plentiful food and drink.

Its digital source has a separate purpose. A 2023 draft amendment to GB 18030, China’s national text-encoding standard, places 𮲫 among supplementary characters for public-security population records, intended to let uncommon characters in personal and place names travel between information systems. That administrative purpose is separate from its older and technical word uses.