What 𰩠 means
Read it as 持, the character for “to hold” or “keep.”
The 2015 academic book Buried Ideas includes this form in a transcription of Warring States manuscripts. The Warring States were rival kingdoms in ancient China, and the texts were written on narrow bamboo strips. Unicode preserves the uncommon graph so scholars can quote and discuss that transcription without replacing it with the familiar form 持.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𰩠 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 𰩠
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 30A60, then Alt+X to get 𰩠.
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-30a60”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 30a60, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𰩠CSS
\30A60Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𰩠
HTML hex
𰩠
CSS content
content: "\30A60";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%B0%A9%A0
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.