Nôm character for gì

𱍽 writes the Vietnamese word gì, “what,” in chữ Nôm. Chữ Nôm developed to record Vietnamese speech with Chinese-derived characters and new or adapted forms; inscriptions from the 12th century show it was already in use. A dictionary cites this form in the 1804 verse tale <i>Sơ kính tân trang</i> and lists 𫩝 as another spelling of gì; the word can also work rhetorically, as “why?” or “not inferior?”