What 嵼 means
It is the compatibility form of 嵼, whose meanings describe winding shapes. In Mandarin, 嵼 is read chǎn; Chinese dictionaries give it senses such as a winding mountain slope or something curled. A commentary on Chuci, a classical Chinese poetry collection, links the winding image to thoughts knotted by distress; a Song poem by Lu You uses it for curling clouds.
Unicode retained 嵼 so text could move from Taiwan’s CNS 11643-1992 character-set standard into Unicode and back without losing its source code; this entry is on plane 6 at T6-5C3D. Unicode normalization—a software cleanup that gives equivalent text a consistent form—maps it to 嵼, so the separate code may disappear.
Treat 嵼 as a legacy conversion form; use 嵼 for the unified character in ordinary text.
Who writes 嵼
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Questions people ask
1Why does 嵼 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 嵼
- Search it as
- u+2f880 · 2f880 · 嵼 variant · cns 11643 · cjk variant · unicode variant
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
嵼\2F880Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.