What 叫 means
Taiwan’s CNS 11643-1992 character set records this variant as T6-225B for exact conversion. It maps to 叫 (Mandarin jiào), used to call out, summon, or name someone; the Classical Chinese poem 北山 (“North Mountain”) in the Classic of Poetry uses the call-out sense.
Unicode normalization can turn 叫 into 叫 and erase its separate code-point identity. To preserve 叫 in Unicode text, keep the original character or use its standardized variation sequence, a selector pair: 叫 followed by UFE00.
Technical and archival; it marks a source glyph, not a separate everyday word.
Normalization can merge it into 叫.
Who writes 叫
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Questions people ask
1Why does 叫 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
How to type or find 叫
- Search it as
- 叫 · 叫 · cns11643 · variant
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
叫\2F839Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

