What 蚪 means
It means “tadpole,” usually within 蝌蚪. In Chinese, 蝌蚪 means an amphibian larva; 蚪 is its second character.
科斗 is an older spelling found in the ancient Chinese text Zhuangzi. 蝌蚪文 names old writing described as tadpole-like.
Figuratively, 蝌蚪 can mean musical notes; context distinguishes this from the animal and writing senses.
By itself, 蚪 is unusual; dictionaries explain it through 蝌蚪.
A lone 蚪 may be only part of a word.
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Who writes 蚪
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-874C
蝌 begins the Chinese word 蝌蚪 for “tadpole”; 蚪 is its second character.
CJK Unified Ideograph-6597
斗 is 蚪’s right component and a sound clue for the character’s Chinese reading.
CJK Unified Ideograph-866B
虫 is the animal-related left component; dictionaries also use it to index 蚪.
CJK Unified Ideograph-866C
A Chinese character reference lists 虬 as a variant related in meaning to 蚪; the forms are not interchangeable in every text.
Questions people ask
1Why does 蚪 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 蚪
- Search it as
- tadpole · 蝌蚪 · 科斗 · tadpole script · kedou · kato · musical notes
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
蚪CSS
\86AACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
蚪
HTML hex
蚪
CSS content
content: "\86AA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%9A%AA
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.