What 𰢸 means
A rare form of 畎, Mandarin quǎn: a field ditch.
An early surviving reference appears in the Book of Documents, an ancient Chinese classic: its water-control account routes small field channels into larger waterways.
畎亩 (“ditch and raised strip”) came to mean farmland. The Mencius, a philosophical classic, says Shun, a legendary ruler, rose from 畎亩; the phrase gives his story a humble rural beginning.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𰢸 show as a box?
On systems without glyph support, it may appear as a box or blank space. The display is missing; the text can still contain 𰢸.
How to type 𰢸
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 308B8, then Alt+X to get 𰢸.
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-308b8”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 308b8, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𰢸CSS
\308B8Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𰢸
HTML hex
𰢸
CSS content
content: "\308B8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%B0%A2%B8
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.