Need help to identify this rare/unknown chinese character

[tikus777]

Could anyone kindly help to identify the spelling and meaning of this character please?

 

[Shelley]

Have you got any more info? what it is on?, how old do you think it is?, who do you think wrote it? etc.

 

For what its worth and this is only my opinion after a bit of research I think it is 3 separate characters.

 

Is it possible it is Japanese? .

 

More details will help.

[Hofmann]

Don't know. Probably can't type it here without screwing up my post. [u+261AE].

[Lu]

Let's try copy-pasting it from Hofmann's Unicode link... . None of my dictionaries know what to make of it, they don't even give its pronunciation, and not even the pronunciation of its right part . This one seems to be really very obscure. In what context did you come across this character?

[Edit: nope, can't type it here.]

[Hofmann]

If I were to guess, I'd guess it's a variant of 徽. 徽 is 糸+微 (which is 彳+[u+22F38]). You just have another 糸 in place of 彳.

[Shelley]

Wow how wrong was I, it looks like 3 but is 1. Amazing character.

[nyancat]

I just showed this character to a native Chinese person, and well, she didn't even know what it is. 

[edelweis]

http://code.web.idv.hk/hkscs/h2u_06.php

shows a Cantonese pronunciation

 

http://bluebat.fedorapeople.org/cin/pinyin.cin

shows two (Mandarin?) pinyin pronunciations

 

http://www.cns11643.gov.tw/AIDB/query_general_view.do?page=a&code=7553

seems to be the source for the 2nd link

[tikus777]

Thank you very much guys, i really appreciate it. You all are awesome

 

From those references you've given, I'm able to found it from this Unihan database.

http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=261AE

 

I got that character from an old Feng Shui guy, and he got it from an old book.

We were trying to find a good Chinese name for my son, but then we got stumbled on that character.

It got the right amount of strokes he is looking for, but he couldn't be sure about the pronunciation and the meaning of it.

[Lu]

As I was looking up this character, I actually thought: imagine someone has this for a name, what a lifetime of hassle. Please, do not use this character to name your son. Nobody will know how to pronounce it and virtually nobody will be able to type it, so everybody will always say his name wrong, write his name wrong in emails and such, he will never be able to get his name on any kind of documentation, or only after several painful rounds of hassle, and if he uses this name officially in China it might result in all kinds of unforseen bureaucratic nightmares when computer system after computer system can't process it. Get this character on a painting, get it as a tattoo if you want, but do not use it as a name for a person.

[skylee]

#10 is excellent advice.

[Hofmann]

Stroke counting is superstitious nonsense. I can write this character in 25, 23, or 20 strokes depending on how I feel and how you count. When choosing a name, prioritize characters for their meaning and avoiding sounding similar to something distasteful.

 

Also avoid undefined characters, as noted above.

[Lu]

One person's superstition is another person's religion. If OP finds stroke count important, it is important in this case because it is important to him.

[imron]

I think Hofmann's point was that because this character can be written with multiple different stroke counts, choosing it because of it's stroke count is not necessarily useful.

 

Regardless, I also agree with your earlier comments about how this character shouldn't be used for a name.