What 𰲤 means
Read it in the manuscript passage, not from shape alone.
𰲤 is listed as an alternate form of 甲, a Han character that can mean a hard shell or armor. That relationship identifies a character family; the sentence in a manuscript shows how this form functions in that occurrence.
𰲤 appears in a scholarly transcription in Buried Ideas, Sarah Allan’s study of Warring States bamboo-slip texts from Chu, an ancient Chinese state. A bamboo slip is a thin writing strip. Encoding forms like this lets scholars quote and discuss manuscript handwriting precisely.
Who writes 𰲤
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𰲤 show as a box on some devices?
It is recent: Unicode added it in version 13.0 (2020), and phones and computers whose fonts are older than that have nothing to draw it with. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 𰲤
- Search it as
- 30ca4
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𰲤\30CA4Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.