RyanOG88 Posted May 18, 2008 at 12:59 AM Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 at 12:59 AM 㯠 I stumbled across this character in Portuguese context, almost like it should have been serving some phonetic duty. What is it? 㯠 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monto Posted May 18, 2008 at 05:07 AM Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 at 05:07 AM This square thing appears when the computer system could not identify a certain character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shibo77 Posted May 18, 2008 at 05:39 AM Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 at 05:39 AM Maybe it should be the -"ão" suffix displayed in a Big5 Traditional Chinese environment? Regarding the Chinese character, see this link: http://www.zdic.net/zd/zi2/ZdicE3ZdicAFZdicA0.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liuzhou Posted May 18, 2008 at 06:59 AM Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 at 06:59 AM Is it this? 蒟 That's what I get when I switch to BIG-5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowdh Posted May 18, 2008 at 07:30 AM Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 at 07:30 AM I reckon its a big question mark... at least thats what my laptop displays... Could read Liuzho's though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaxiu Posted May 18, 2008 at 10:54 AM Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 at 10:54 AM My dictionary spits out: 㯠 qiàn, xiàn, xún ... a cross-beam; an axle, etc. I think Shibo77 is right. If you search for it with Google, lots of site in Spanish/ Portuguese have the character. Strange Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted May 18, 2008 at 12:07 PM Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 at 12:07 PM I see it perfectly fine on my computer. It's the same character that appears on the page linked to by Shibo77 (which is completely different to the character Liuzhou showed). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monto Posted May 18, 2008 at 12:20 PM Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 at 12:20 PM I also see a character different from above. it is “木” on the left, and “亥”without the last two strokes over a 秃宝盖 over “牟”on the right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu Posted May 18, 2008 at 12:57 PM Report Share Posted May 18, 2008 at 12:57 PM Perhaps this one is so rare it isn't in some systems... when I open the link in shibo's post, even the 'heading' of the window says 字典中[]字的解釋. If it shows up in a lot of Spanish and Portuguese sites, it does sound likely that it shares a code with one or the other letter with an ~ over it. Chaning the encoding settings should help, or at least clarify. Funny, I can actually search it when I copypaste the []. This (cached) site seems to show that it's a matter of encoding settings. Lots of obscure characters in an otherwise Portuguese text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lugubert Posted May 19, 2008 at 10:56 AM Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 at 10:56 AM When I switch to Western European (Windows) page encoding, I see the nasal a that's included in shibo77's post, but followed by an overstrike. Lu's search page confirms shibo77's "nasal a plus o". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alexkos Posted June 16, 2008 at 01:42 AM Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 at 01:42 AM [qiàn] [xiàn] [xún] (Unihan) a cross-beam; an axle, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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