What 㬙 means
It is the legacy form of 㬙.
Chinese dictionaries treat 㬙 as a variant of 暐, meaning “sunlight.” The Kangxi Dictionary, a reference book for Chinese characters, cites the older Yupian dictionary for that gloss. Both forms are read wěi in Mandarin, but use different components as sound clues. Unicode kept the separate source form for Taiwan’s CNS 11643-1992 text standard, so data can travel into and back out of that character set without losing its original position.
Questions people ask
1Will Unicode normalization keep 㬙 unchanged?
No. Unicode normalization maps it to 㬙. Unicode also defines 㬙 followed by variation selector FE00, an invisible mark that requests a particular glyph variant.
How to type 㬙
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2F8CE, then Alt+X to get 㬙.
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-2f8ce”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2f8ce, then Enter or Space.
HTML
㬙CSS
\2F8CECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㬙
HTML hex
㬙
CSS content
content: "\2F8CE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AF%A3%8E
1
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.