What 幩 means
幩 maps to 幩, the Chinese character for cloth wrapped around a horse’s bit. The Book of Songs poem “Shuo Ren” mentions a red bridle ornament; the early character dictionary Shuowen Jiezi explains that the hanging cloth could fan sweat away from the horse.
Unicode preserves this exact code for round-trip conversion with Taiwan’s CNS 11643 standard, where its source is on plane 7. That lets text travel from the standard into Unicode and back without losing its original character mapping. The Unicode source record also lists it under North Korea’s KPS 10721 standard.
Why does 幩 become 幩?
Unicode normalization maps 幩 to 幩.
Normalization makes equivalent text consistent. Because this character has a canonical mapping to 幩, text-processing software can replace 幩 with 幩 during normalization.
To preserve the standardized variant in normalized text, use 幩︀: 幩 followed by variation selector UFE00, an invisible character that requests a particular written form. A font that supports the sequence can display that variant.
Who writes 幩
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Questions people ask
1How is 幩 pronounced?
In Mandarin, 幩 is pronounced fén, with the second tone; this is the reading of the underlying Chinese character.
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How to type or find 幩
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- 幩 · 2f887 · cns11643 · cns 11643 · kps10721 · kps 10721 · hanzi variant
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
幩\2F887幩 as a numeric character reference; XML accepts the same form.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.