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𝍄

tetragram for watch

Vision Tetragram

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𝍄 is the Taixuan figure titled 視 (shì, “seeing” or “vision”); its English label “Watch” means looking, not timekeeping. Completed around 2 BCE by Yang Xiong, the ancient Chinese book develops four-line figures modeled on the Yijing (Book of Changes); scholars debate whether its original purpose was divination or numerical cosmology. Its oldest surviving arrangement is Jin-era, and this figure’s passage contrasts inward reflection with outward appearances.

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What 𝍄 means

𝍄 is the tetragram for watch. Unicode classifies it as an “other symbol” — Unicode's shelf for signs that are neither maths, money nor punctuation and files it in the Tai Xuan Jing Symbols block; this site shelves it under Beliefs & culture.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𝍄 is a single code point, U1D344. In HTML that is 𝍄, and in CSS \1D344.

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𝍄 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.

How to type or find 𝍄

Search it as
taixuan · tai xuan · tai xuan jing · yang xiong · yijing
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 1D344, 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 watch”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1d344, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𝍄
CSS
\1D344
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𝍄
HTML hex
𝍄
CSS content
content: "\1D344";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9D%8D%84
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Beliefs & culture454 symbols