What 𰩲 means
Different word histories meet through bamboo.
The Chinese character dictionary 說文解字, compiled around 100 CE, defines 籚 as the layered-bamboo shaft of a spear. 𰩲 is its simplified variant.
In Vietnamese Hán Nôm, a historical character-based way to write Vietnamese, 𰩲 can stand for lờ, a fish trap woven from bamboo. Vietnamese lexicons link lờ to 籚, so both histories involve bamboo but name different objects.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𰩲 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 𰩲
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 30A72, then Alt+X to get 𰩲.
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-30a72”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 30a72, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𰩲CSS
\30A72Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𰩲
HTML hex
𰩲
CSS content
content: "\30A72";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%B0%A9%B2
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.