What 燾 means
Read it as broad cover or illumination.
The Shuowen small-seal entry, completed around 100 CE, defines 燾 as broadly covering and illuminating. Its early job was an overarching verb of shelter or light, not a standalone emblem.
Later sources connect it with 幬 for cover and a Zhouli reading of 敦. Dictionaries keep cover, shelter, and carry; in modern Chinese the short form is also used in given names.
Classical in quotation; elsewhere it reads as a specialized name character.
A lone 燾 can look like a typo.
Who writes 燾
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 燾 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 燾
- Also called
- 焘
- Search it as
- dao · tao · cover · shelter · illuminate · name · classical chinese
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
燾\71FECodes and encoding1 code points
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