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𝍖

tetragram for fostering

Tetragram for Fostering

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𝍖 means nurturing: care that supports growth. It comes from a Chinese divination text drafted in 2 BCE; sent alone, it is hard to decode.

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What 𝍖 means

It means nurturing: care that helps life grow.

Mandarin yǎng, roughly “yahng” with a dipping tone, means raising, nourishing, or supporting body and mind. Traditional Chinese writes it 養; simplified Chinese writes it 养.

Yang Xiong’s Tai Xuan Jing is a Chinese divination text modeled on the Yijing (Book of Changes). Three line types form its four-line figures. The oldest surviving version is a Jin-dynasty edited text by Fan Wang, who grouped commentaries by figure.

Specialist historical notation.

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Why does 𝍖 show as a box?

Display is font-dependent: a font without this glyph may show a box. A font supporting Tai Xuan Jing symbols can render it.

How to type or find 𝍖

Also called
yǎng · 養 · 养
Search it as
tai xuan jing · nurturing
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 1D356, then AltX to get 𝍖.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “tetragram for fostering”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1d356, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𝍖
CSS
\1D356
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𝍖
HTML hex
𝍖
CSS content
content: "\1D356";
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URL encoded
%F0%9D%8D%96
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

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