What 𰐮 means
𰐮 is a historical Chinese character documented in an inscription catalog.
Ken-ichi Takashima’s 1985 concordance of Yin Ruins inscriptions lists it as figure 58 on page 221. A concordance links written forms to source examples. Yin was a Shang capital near Anyang. In the late Shang, diviners carved questions and results on shells or animal bones. This places the character in oracle-bone writing; its outline alone cannot translate the inscription.
A 2016 Unicode report says scholars use this set of signs to transcribe oracle-bone writing in modern sources. Its code lets digital texts reproduce an old sign exactly.
Who writes 𰐮
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𰐮 show as an empty box?
Your font may lack the glyph. The 2026 BabelStone Han font list includes it, but coverage varies by font; the character itself is unchanged.
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𰐮\3042ECodes and encoding1 code points
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