What 乨 means
乨 is a historical form of 始, meaning “begin.” In ordinary modern Chinese, 始 is the form to use.
始 appears in bronze inscriptions—writing on bronze objects—from the late Shang or early Western Zhou. The exact 乨 appears in 古文孝經, an old-text version of the Classic of Filial Piety, a Chinese book about respect for parents; Japanese copies date to the late Tang. A Sui tomb inscription and a Tang bridge inscription also record 乨 for 亂 (“disorder”).
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-59Cb
Ordinary modern form of the same Chinese word.
𠃭
CJK Unified Ideograph-200Ed
Another ancient form connected with 始.
CJK Unified Ideograph-5158
Another ancient form connected with 始.
𠙉
CJK Unified Ideograph-20649
Another ancient form connected with 始.
CJK Unified Ideograph-4E82
Historical use for “disorder” recorded for 乨.
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乨CSS
\4E68Microsoft Word
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4E68 and press AltX; Microsoft documents this route as of 2026-10-08.Codes and encoding1 code points
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乨
HTML hex
乨
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content: "\4E68";
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%E4%B9%A8
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