What 䗓 means
A dragonfly. In Mandarin, 䗓 is pronounced cōng in Pinyin, roughly “tsong” on a high, level tone.
A Han-era passage in the Huainanzi, an ancient Chinese text, describes a water scorpion becoming a dragonfly.
蜻蜓 means dragonfly in everyday Chinese; 䗓 is classical or specialist. As of 2025, a Chinese entomology handbook uses it in dragonfly and damselfly names.
Rare and specialist: it suits a classical passage or insect label, not casual chat.
Alone, it may look like a typo.
Who writes 䗓
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Questions people ask
1Why does 䗓 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 䗓
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- dragonfly · cong · cōng · 蟌 · 𧋙 · 蜻蜓 · Chinese dragonfly character · rare Chinese character
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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