What 𰱎 means
Its source shape was treated as a variant of 𤼲. Taiwan's Ministry of Education lists 𤼲 as a variant of 發 and cites the Lu Jun Stele, a stone inscription, and Dunhuang manuscripts. Unicode reviewers linked 𰱎 to that written form.
For 𰱎, the Unicode source trail leads to Guang bei bie zi (廣碑別字), a 1995 book of variant forms from Chinese stone inscriptions. Its review calls this glyph a rare error form, so keep it when faithfully transcribing a source, not as a general substitute for 發.
Historical-text use: retain it to reproduce a source's unusual form.
Do not read it as a separate everyday word from 發.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𰱎 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 𰱎
𰱎\30C4ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.