Han Character 30F24

Its meaning changes with the language and phrase.

In Zhuang writing, 𰼤 represents mwt, “blunt.” A Korean county gazette uses it after 鐵 (“iron”); together, 鐵𰼤 means “iron stake.” The same shape is also attested as a character in Nôm, the historical Vietnamese writing system that used Chinese characters and locally created forms to write Vietnamese.

These are separate regional readings, not a single definition shared across Chinese, Korean, Zhuang and Vietnamese. In a document, use the surrounding words and writing tradition to decide which applies.

Why was 𰼤 used in writing about the Thai baht?

An old Chaozhou dictionary records it as a money word used in Siam.

Josiah Goddard’s 1883 Chaozhou (Tie-chiu) dictionary glosses 𰼤 as “a small piece of money” used in Siam for a tical, an older English name for the baht. A Chinese-language Bangkok newspaper used it in a money amount in 1947.

One proposed origin says Chaozhou writers combined 金 (“metal”) with 末 as a sound cue for Thai baht. A Thai-language account presents this as a hypothesis in 2021, not a settled derivation.