What 搢 means
It preserves a Taiwan source-code distinction during conversion.
CNS 11643 is Taiwan's character-coding standard. The compatibility supplement preserves forms for round-trip conversion with CNS 11643-1992, including plane 15. Taiwan's CNS index lists this exact form as 15-415F and marks it for Ministry of the Interior household-registration use in its 2007 edition.
Normalization turns it into 搢 (U+6422), pronounced jìn in Mandarin and meaning “insert.” Taiwan's Ministry of Education dictionary records the older “shake” gloss in a Three Kingdoms-era note on Guoyu, an ancient history; the Song-era dictionary Guangyun gives “insert.” The New Book of Tang, a Tang-era history, says Zhang Jiuling's fellow officials tucked a flat tablet into their belts (搢笏). As of 2026, Taiwan's Ministry of Education Taiwanese Hokkien dictionary lists 搢 (tsìnn) for “stuff in” or “push into”; Taiwan's household-registration guide says rare characters not supported by Big5 on ordinary PCs may appear as █.
Questions people ask
1Why does 搢 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 搢
搢\2F8BFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
