What 䣈 means
It is an old written form of 巷 for “lane” or “alley.” Shuowen Jiezi, an Eastern Han dictionary, defines the older graph 𨞠 as a road within a settlement and identifies 䢽 as its seal-script form. 衖 is another historical form of 巷.
Historical and philological; 巷 is the familiar written form.
Who writes 䣈
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-5Df7
The familiar written form for the same lane-or-alley word; 䣈 is historical.
𨞠
CJK Unified Ideograph-287A0
Older graph glossed in Shuowen Jiezi as a road within a settlement.
䢽
CJK Unified Ideograph-48Bd
Seal-script form named in Shuowen Jiezi; also preserved on a stele for Kong Dan’s shrine.
CJK Unified Ideograph-8856
Historical variant of 巷, also found in the early Chinese dictionary Erya.
Questions people ask
1Why does 䣈 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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How to type or find 䣈
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- 䣈 meaning · 䣈 Cangjie · historical form 巷
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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䣈CSS
\48C8Cangjie
Enter RURAU with Cangjie, a Chinese input method based on character shapes.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
䣈
HTML hex
䣈
CSS content
content: "\48C8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E4%A3%88
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
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