What 穝 means
It marks the reading sai in local Japanese names. Japanese references classify it as a kokuji for place and personal names. Okayama lists 穝東町 as an address; a prefectural museum records 穝所与一 on a dagger dated 1547. The evidence supports local name-writing, not a fixed everyday meaning.
That role travels poorly: Chinese treatment describes 穝 as an orthographic borrowing from Japanese proper-name use, not an ordinary Chinese word. A Japanese reference flags the glyph as environment-dependent, so display and input support can vary.
Formal local proper-name use; it is not a general-purpose kanji.
In an address or surname, do not substitute 樶.
Who writes 穝
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 穝 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 穝
- Search it as
- sai · さい · okayama · 穝東 · さいひがしまち · 穝所 · 樶 · kokuji
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
穝\7A5DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.