What 䯨 means
It is an old written form of 敲, meaning “knock” or “strike.”
The earliest known dictionary entry is in 玉篇, an early Chinese character dictionary associated with 543; it labels 䯨 古文敲 (“old form of 敲”). Later Chinese dictionaries also list the Mandarin reading hè, roughly “huh” with falling pitch, for the separate sense “large.”
Historical, dictionary-facing, and specialist.
When font support is missing, 䯨 may show as a box; that box is a display fallback, not another character.
Who writes 䯨
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Questions people ask
1Why does 䯨 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 䯨
- Search it as
- qiao · he · 敲 · 古文敲 · 古字 · tap · strike · old form of 敲
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
䯨\4BE8\u4BE8 where Unicode escapes are supported; in HTML, 䯨.4BE8, then press Alt+X.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.