What 𱘧 means
Read it as Vietnamese dư: something extra or beyond what is needed.
Vietnamese writers adapted Chinese characters and their parts to write Vietnamese words. One scholarly timeline places early forms of Chữ Nôm in the 8th–9th centuries.
A printed Nôm text on the harms of opium preserves this form in a line where dư means “extra.”
A historical Vietnamese Nôm form, used in texts that write Vietnamese with Chinese-character forms.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𱘧 show as a box?
A font may not include a drawing for it. The Unicode 18.0 chart provides a reference glyph, but an app without a supporting font can still show a blank box.
How to type 𱘧
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 31627, then Alt+X to get 𱘧.
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-31627”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 31627, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𱘧CSS
\31627Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𱘧
HTML hex
𱘧
CSS content
content: "\31627";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%B1%98%A7
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.