What 㼉 means
It names a green-skinned melon in older Chinese dictionaries. This rare hanzi, or Chinese character, is a fruit name rather than a general-purpose message. For typing, Mandarin Pinyin uses zhèn and Cangjie uses HOLBU; an input method may still omit it.
The Guangyun, an early Chinese rhyme dictionary (a reference organized by sound), gives the green-skinned-melon gloss. Later rhyme dictionaries and the Kangxi dictionary preserve the same meaning.
A Japanese reference entry places 青㼉瓜 under its main listing 青瓜 and gives it the same green-skinned-melon gloss.
Should you send 㼉 by itself?
Alone, it carries little conversational context. A reader may take it as a dictionary lookup, a source transcription, or a character-display test. Add the melon gloss if the fruit reference matters.
Why does 㼉 sometimes render as a box?
The chosen font may not contain this glyph. The 2024 Taiwan CNS11643 record lists 㼉 in its rare-use standard-font table and notes a default glyph in Windows 10 and later. Another app may select a font without coverage.
Rare and dictionary-bound; by itself, it reads like a character lookup or source quotation.
Explain the melon meaning when the fruit reference matters.
Who writes 㼉
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1Why does 㼉 show as a square?
A missing font glyph can cause that. The app is using a font without this character; choose one with broader Chinese-character coverage.
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How to type or find 㼉
- Search it as
- green-skinned melon · rare hanzi · zhèn · zam6 · HOLBU · 𤫯
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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