What 㞁 means
It represents 㞁, a rare character for an unsteady gait.
The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary finalized in 121 CE, glosses 㞁 as “walking improperly.” The later Kangxi Dictionary, published in 1716, repeats that sense and adds “swollen feet.”
Mandarin spells its reading yào (fourth tone) in pinyin; Cantonese’s Jyutping system, which writes Cantonese sounds with Latin letters and tone numbers, gives jiu6.
Why does 㞁 have a separate code point?
It preserves an older character-encoding distinction.
The CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Compatibility Ideographs Supplement exists for round-trip conversion with Taiwan’s CNS 11643-1992 character-encoding standard, including planes 3–7 and 15. Round-trip conversion means moving text into Unicode and back to its original encoding without losing the source character. This code preserves that distinction.
How can I keep 㞁 after normalization?
Use the standardized sequence 㞁︀.
Normalization is software’s way of making equivalent text consistent. Unicode maps 㞁 to 㞁 in every normalization form, including NFC. The sequence 㞁︀ adds UFE00, Variation Selector-1, to 㞁 and preserves the distinct glyph through normalization.
Who writes 㞁
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Questions people ask
1Why does 㞁 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 㞁
- Search it as
- u+2f876 · 2f876 · 㞁 · cns 11643 · compatibility ideograph
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㞁\2F876Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.