What 𱬮 means
Unicode’s chart links 𱬮 to 燬, a Chinese character for fierce fire. The character is built from 火 (“fire”) and 毀, which supplies its sound. A related spelling, 𤈦, appears in the Book of Songs, a Chinese poetry collection whose poems are dated around 1000–600 BCE, in 王室如𤈦 (“the royal house is like a blaze”). The dictionary Shuowen Jiezi, compiled around 100 CE, glosses 燬 and 𤈦 as “fire”; 燬 also works as a verb meaning “burn or destroy.”
Who writes 𱬮
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𱬮 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 or find 𱬮
- Search it as
- 燬 · 𤈦 · huǐ · fire · burn
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𱬮\31B2ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

