What 𢛔 means
It preserves an older encoding distinction. The supplement supports round-trip conversion with CNS 11643-1992, Taiwan’s Chinese text standard: older text can move into Unicode and back without losing which standard character it used. 𢛔 maps to 𢛔. Taiwan’s Ministry of Education dictionary gives 𢛔 the Mandarin reading dōng and glosses it as “foolish.”
In 2021, a Unicode review separated Taiwan’s CNS entry T6-487C from this mapping after finding its glyph distinct; that form later received its own character, 𱞫 .
Treat it as an archival compatibility form, not ordinary Han text.
Normalization can replace it with 𢛔, erasing the exact code point.
Who writes 𢛔
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𢛔 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 𢛔
- Search it as
- 2f8a4 · cns 11643 · 𢛔
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𢛔\2F8A4Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.