What 㶟 means
It names a particular river, not water in general. 㶟 is a water-name character from northern China. The earliest clear written record is the Eastern Han dictionary Shuowen Jiezi — the first systematic analysis of Chinese characters — which says the river 㶟水 rises at Leitou Mountain in Yanmen, a frontier commandery in what is now northern Shanxi, flows east to the sea, and is also called 治水.
The character is built the standard way for Chinese river names: the 氵 water sign on the left says what kind of word it is, and 纍 on the right carries the sound. The name's later history keeps the river and changes the label: it was written 桑乾水, and modern explanations connect it with the Sanggan upstream and the Yongding downstream, while noting that the ancient and modern courses are not identical.
Historical-geographic and specialist; it belongs to place-name and philological contexts, not expressive chat.
Do not use it as a generic water icon: it names a particular historical river.
Who writes 㶟
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 㶟 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 㶟
- Also called
- 㶟水 · 治水 · 桑乾水
- Search it as
- lěi · léi · sanggan · 永定河 · 灅 · 漯灅 · lei
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㶟\3D9FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.