What 叱 means
In Taiwan’s dictionary, it means “a mouth held open.” Jiyun (集韻), a historical Chinese rhyme dictionary, records this gloss; the character joins 口 (“mouth”) with 匕, its huà sound component.
Taiwan’s CNS 11643 lists the source as T5-2160. Unicode kept such source distinctions so conversion between systems would not lose them.
Why does 叱 turn into 叱?
Because Unicode keeps an older mapping to 叱. In Unicode 18.0, text normalization—a standard cleanup step—still turns 叱 into the distinct “scold” character. Unicode 14.0 gave the Taiwan huà character its own code point: 𫜸.
Who writes 叱
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Questions people ask
1Why does 叱 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.
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How to type or find 叱
- Search it as
- huà · CNS 11643 · T5-2160 · 叱
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
叱\2F83A叱 in the markup; the parser resolves it to this character.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.