What 𰻴 means
No — a rare variant spelling of the same name.
Dictionaries record 𰻴 as a little-used written form of 鄄, Mandarin juàn. And 鄄 does just one job: writing the place name Juan — today the county of Juancheng (鄄城), in the Heze area of Shandong. It is a proper name, not a word — outside that name the character means nothing.
鄄's right-hand part 阝 is the 'settlement' radical 邑, a frequent tell on Chinese place-name characters — the same element sits on 鄭 (Zheng), 邯 (of Handan) and 鄧 (the surname Deng). The left part 垔 supplies the sound, so the character reads as 'the settlement called Juan'.
How old is the name it writes?
Older than the Roman Empire — it's in China's earliest chronicle.
The Spring and Autumn Annals, the court chronicle of the state of Lu, records the lords of Qi, Song, Wey and Zheng meeting at 鄄 in the early 7th century BCE, when the settlement belonged to Wey. The meeting of 679 BCE is traditionally counted as the start of Duke Huan of Qi's hegemony — the first of the era's recognized overlords.
The name held on. Under the Han dynasty a county already bore the name, and it still does — Juancheng County sits in southwestern Shandong today. 𰻴 survives as a variant spelling preserved by large character dictionaries; the spelling on maps and in the classics is 鄄.
A proper-name glyph: neutral and purely referential.
Don't read it as an ordinary word — it only ever writes a place name.
Who writes 𰻴
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Don't confuse it with
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Worth knowing
- Made Prince of Juancheng in 222 CE, the poet Cao Zhi wrote the celebrated 'Rhapsody on the Goddess of the Luo' — his preface says he composed it crossing the Luo on the journey back.
Questions people ask
4Why does 𰻴 show up as an empty box?
Your font doesn't cover the character. It entered Unicode in 2020 in the CJK Extension G block, which many fonts — even current ones — still skip, so they draw a placeholder box. The text itself is correct.
Is 𰻴 the simplified form of 鄄?
No. 鄄 is written identically in simplified and traditional systems; 𰻴 is an old variant spelling kept by dictionaries, not a reform-era simplification.
How do you pronounce 𰻴?
Juàn — falling fourth tone, the same reading as 鄄. The full county name 鄄城 is Juancheng.
Why won't pinyin input produce it?
Most input dictionaries carry only standard characters — 'juan' gives 鄄. The variant lives at code point U30EF4; insert it directly or paste it from a character viewer.
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How to type or find 𰻴
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- 鄄 · 鄄城 · juàn · juan · Juancheng · U+30EF4
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𰻴\30EF4Codes and encoding1 code points
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