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廊

cjk compatibility ideograph-2f88e

CJK compatibility ideograph 2F88E

廊 maps to 廊, the character used for covered passages and corridors. Ordinary words use 廊; 廊 preserves a source distinction in Taiwan’s CNS 11643 encoding during conversion.

Text symbol
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廊 · 走廊 · 廊下 · corridor
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 廊 means

It represents 廊, a character for corridors and galleries.

An added entry in the Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, glosses 廊 as the east and west side galleries of a hall. The character appears in Mandarin 走廊 (“corridor”), Japanese 廊下 (ろうか, rōka; “hallway”), and Korean 화랑 (畵廊, “art gallery”).

This form comes from CNS 11643-1992, plane 6, code T6-5240; Unicode retained it for round-trip conversion. Canonical normalization maps it to 廊. Unicode also records U+5ECA U+FE01 as its glyph-variant sequence.

Questions people ask

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Why does 廊 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 廊

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2F88E, then Alt+X to get 廊.
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-2f88e”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2f88e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
廊
CSS
\2F88E
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
廊
HTML hex
廊
CSS content
content: "\2F88E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AF%A2%8E
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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.

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