What 䧛 means
䧛 is a variant of 傍 meaning “beside” or “near.”
An early record appears in the Yupian, a Chinese character dictionary compiled about 543 CE: it lists this graph as a form of 傍. That makes 䧛 an alternate spelling of an existing “beside/near” word, rather than a sign coined for a separate object.
Chinese variant dictionaries also list 䧛 as a form of 𨎧, a separate old character associated with the sound of a cart. Keep that reading for a historical dictionary or transcription; the usual reading of 䧛 is the 傍 variant.
Use 傍 in ordinary modern writing
For an ordinary sentence about being “beside” or “near,” choose 傍; keep 䧛 for reproducing an older text, recording the exact variant, or comparing forms. This is a choice about faithful spelling.
If 䧛 appears without context, read it first as the variant of 傍. The cart-sound gloss belongs to a separate historical dictionary sense.
Specialist and archival: useful for exact-text work and historical dictionaries, while 傍 is the ordinary modern form.
For ordinary “near” or “beside,” write 傍; 䧛 may be mistaken for a typo or a missing glyph.
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1Why does 䧛 show as a box or look different?
A box means the active font lacks a drawing for 䧛; different fonts may also draw its strokes differently. Choose a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean font that includes this less-common block of Han characters.
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