What 𱋆 means
A cake-like grain starter used for brewing.
The traditional form 䴮 appears in a transmitted text of Yu Pian, a Chinese character dictionary. Longkan Shoujing, a dictionary for readers of Buddhist texts with a preface dated 997, glosses it as a cake of ferment.
The ingredient is grain fermented and dried into a brewing starter. Read 𱋆 as the ingredient, not the drink it helps make.
Questions people ask
1How is 𱋆 pronounced?
Mandarin: shàn. Cantonese: saan3.
How to type 𱋆
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 312C6, then Alt+X to get 𱋆.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-312c6”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 312c6, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𱋆CSS
\312C6Cangjie input for 𱋆
On a Cangjie input method that includes this character, enter QEU.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𱋆
HTML hex
𱋆
CSS content
content: "\312C6";
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URL encoded
%F0%B1%8B%86
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
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