What 屠 means
It represents 屠, the character for butchering or slaughter.
Unicode’s code chart traces 屠 to plane 6 of Taiwan’s CNS 11643, a national standard for exchanging Chinese-language text. Plane 6 mainly contains character variants. This compatibility code point lets data from the standard make a round trip through Unicode while keeping its original source mapping.
The underlying character is much older than this encoding: Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, glosses 屠 as butchering. Classical Chinese also uses it for killing people on a large scale, as in 屠城 (“massacre a city”).
Who writes 屠
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 屠 turn into 屠?
Unicode normalization treats this compatibility character as equivalent to 屠, so normalization replaces it with 屠 and removes the distinct code-point identity.
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How to type or find 屠
- Search it as
- 2f877 · 屠 · cjk compatibility · compatibility ideograph · cns11643 · 屠 variant
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
屠\2F877Codes and encoding1 code points
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