What 巽 means
Yes. Canonical Unicode normalization turns it into 巽. Unicode defines 巽 with a canonical mapping to 巽. NFC and NFD are two standard forms of canonical normalization; applying either to text containing this character can replace it with 巽 and erase the separate code point.
Worth knowing
- The Han-era Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, glosses 巽 as “fully prepared”; 巽 is also an earlier form of 饌, the character for food.
Questions people ask
1Why does 巽 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.
How to type 巽
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2F884, then Alt+X to get 巽.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk compatibility ideograph-2f884”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2f884, then Enter or Space.
HTML
巽CSS
\2F884Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
巽
HTML hex
巽
CSS content
content: "\2F884";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AF%A2%84
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.