What 𰛊 means
It is a simplified variant of 溤, with two old dictionary trails.
The Chinese character dictionary 玉篇, compiled around 543, glosses 溤 as “water.” A Tang-era guide to standard and variant writing, 干禄字书, records 溤 as 俗馮字, a nonstandard written form of 馮. Unicode’s Han-character data lists 溤’s Mandarin reading as mǎ and its Cantonese Jyutping reading as maa5; Jyutping spells Cantonese sounds with letters and tone numbers. These records give different historical clues, so the surrounding text matters.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𰛊 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 𰛊
𰛊\306CACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
