What 杞 means
It represents the same Han character as 杞. On oracle bones from China’s Shang dynasty—animal bones and turtle shells used for divination—杞 appears as a place name; bronze inscriptions use it for a state. Its plant sense is wolfberry: 木 (“tree”) marks the plant category, while 己 cues the sound. The idiom 杞人憂天 (“a person from Qi fears the sky will fall”) means needless worry. Taiwan’s CNS 11643-1992 character set assigned this form source position T4-2447 for round-trip conversion.
Questions people ask
1Will Unicode normalization preserve 杞?
No. Unicode normalization maps 杞 to 杞. The standardized sequence 杞︀ preserves the distinction through normalization, but the font must support its variant glyph.
How to type 杞
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2F8DB, then Alt+X to get 杞.
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-2f8db”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2f8db, then Enter or Space.
HTML
杞CSS
\2F8DBCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
杞
HTML hex
杞
CSS content
content: "\2F8DB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AF%A3%9B
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.