What 夆 means
It is a source-specific variant of 夆, kept for text exchange.
The base character 夆 appears in 說文解字, an early Chinese dictionary, with a sense of meeting or encountering. Taiwan’s CNS 11643-1992 plane 5 records this glyph as T5-2362; Unicode keeps it as a separate code point so conversions between the two standards can round-trip without losing the source form.
Canonical normalization maps 夆 to 夆, so this separate code does not reliably preserve the glyph shape. For ordinary text, use 夆; to request its associated glyph, use the standardized sequence 夆︀, which is 夆 followed by invisible UFE00 (Variation Selector-1).
Who writes 夆
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 夆 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 夆
- Search it as
- 2f85c · 夆 · cns 11643
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
夆\2F85CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.