What 𰃍 means
Read it as a rare written form of 烘.
The Chinese character dictionary 《說文解字》 glosses 烘 as kindling or burning. 烘 also means warming or drying something with fire; by the Song dynasty, poems used it figuratively for making one image stand out against another.
A Ming sound-and-rhyme dictionary—a reference book that groups characters by sound—records 𰃍 in print between 1467–1471. That dates a surviving record, not the origin of the form.
Can I use 𰃍 in ordinary writing?
Use 烘 for ordinary modern writing.
Keep 𰃍 when preserving a historical source or discussing the rare form; 烘 is the familiar form for the everyday word.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𰃍 show as a box?
The font in use may not include its glyph. A box is a missing-glyph display, not a different character.
How to type 𰃍
𰃍\300CDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
