What 䋧 means
Classical dictionaries group 䋧 with 絇.
The early dictionary Shuowen Jiezi glosses 絇 as twisted cord. Ritual texts describe shoe trim; Han commentator Zheng Xuan says it reminded wearers to walk carefully. Later dictionaries define 絇 as a measure for five liang (an old Chinese weight) of silk.
Historical and lexicographic in tone.
Don't infer mood from a lone 䋧.
Who writes 䋧
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CJK Unified Ideograph-7D47
䋧 and 絇 are recorded as variant forms of a classical Chinese word for twisted cord and shoe-toe trim; 䋧 adds no separate sense.
CJK Unified Ideograph-53E5
The Zhouli (Rites of Zhou), an early Chinese ritual manual, writes 句 here. Han commentator Zheng Xuan calls it a sound-based error for 絇; Qing scholar Duan Yucai says 句 is right for this shoe term.
Questions people ask
1Why does 䋧 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.
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\42E7Unicode input
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HTML hex
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