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cjk compatibility ideograph-2f8bf

CJK compatibility ideograph 2F8BF

搢 is a special code-table form of 搢, the Chinese character meaning “insert” or “tuck in.” It helps Taiwanese CNS 11643 text survive a trip into Unicode and back without losing its original code. Standard text normalization can turn it into 搢.

Text symbol
Search it as
CNS 11643 · CNS 15-415F · 搢 · rare hanzi · rare Chinese character · Mandarin jìn · Unicode normalization · household-registration character
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

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

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Why 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

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2F8BF, then Alt+X to get 搢.
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-2f8bf”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2f8bf, then Enter or Space.
HTML
搢
CSS
\2F8BF
Taiwan CNS index
The index lists this exact form as 15-415F; use that position in lookup software that accepts CNS codes.
Mandarin pinyin
Enter jìn to look up 搢, its normalized form; an IME may not offer 搢 as a separate candidate.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
搢
HTML hex
搢
CSS content
content: "\2F8BF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AF%A2%BF
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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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