What 𱊷 means
It names lye or alkali, and can describe something as salty.
Sawndip is a traditional character script for Zhuang, made by adapting Chinese characters and their parts to the language. A 1989 dictionary of Old Zhuang characters records 𱊷 as a spelling of ndaengq.
Where does ndaengq come from?
It continues reconstructed Proto-Tai *ɗaŋᴮ, the word for lye.
Proto-Tai is a reconstructed ancestor of the Tai language family. Thai ด่าง (dàang), Lao ດັ່ງ (dang), and Shan လင်ႇ (làng) are related words in that family, not pronunciations of 𱊷.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𱊷 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 𱊷
𱊷\312B7Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
