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冗

cjk compatibility ideograph-2f817

冗 variant

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冗 is a CNS 11643 compatibility variant of 冗, a Chinese character used for disorderly, unnecessary, or busy. Its separate code position supports round-trip conversion; Unicode normalization maps it to 冗.

Text symbol

What 冗 means

It maps to 冗, read rǒng in Mandarin.

In compounds, 冗 can mean disorderly, unnecessary, or busy; 冗句 means a redundant sentence.

Taiwan's CNS 11643-1992 lists this form at T3-214F. That source position is retained for round-trip conversion through Unicode.

Technical and archival: it preserves a CNS source distinction.

Who writes 冗

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Questions people ask

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Will normalization change 冗?

Yes. Unicode's text-normalization forms—NFC, NFD, NFKC, and NFKD—map it to 冗. A standardized variation sequence, 5197 FE00 (冗 plus UFE00), requests the variant glyph but does not preserve this code point.

How to type or find 冗

Search it as
2f817 · 冗 · variant of 冗 · cns 11643 · taiwan encoding · unicode normalization
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 2F817, then AltX to get 冗.
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 “cjk compatibility ideograph-2f817”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 2f817, then Enter or Space.
HTML
冗
CSS
\2F817
Word for Windows
As of 2026-10-05, enter 2F817 and press AltX; select just the code if nearby text could join it.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
冗
HTML hex
冗
CSS content
content: "\2F817";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AF%A0%97
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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.

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