What 燤 means
Its better-attested dictionary sense is “smoky appearance.”
The compound 燤焥 describes a smoky appearance. A second gloss, “fire cut off,” appears in 類篇, but the Kangxi Dictionary notes that 集韻 does not list 燤 under that rhyme, so the entry may be a textual error. Treat the smoke sense as the safer reading.
The earliest dictionary witness located is 集韻, a Song dynasty rhyme dictionary completed in 1039; the character also appears in 類篇. Japanese kanji references retain the smoke-related sense but list readings specific to Japanese. These entries show a dictionary trail without establishing when or why the character was created.
Literary and dictionary-like; it reads as an uncommon written word in ordinary chat.
Alone, its meaning is hard to recover without knowing the dictionary sense.
Who writes 燤
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Questions people ask
1Why does 燤 show as a box?
Font coverage. Taiwan’s CNS 11643 character database reported in 2024 that Windows 10 and later default fonts include 燤; another app or font may still lack the glyph.
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燤\71E4Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.