CJK Compatibility Ideograph 2F8DD

It preserves a distinct entry from an older character set.

CNS 11643 is Taiwan's standard for encoding Chinese text. Planning began in 1980 to address missing characters and make computer text exchange possible; the standard became national in 1986 and expanded from two planes to seven in 1992. Its expanded repertoire included rare characters and variants.

𣏃 maps to 𣏃, whose CNS 11643 code is 6-282A in plane 6, one of the standard's numbered sections. Unicode gives 𣏃 a separate value so this source entry can convert into Unicode and back. Text normalization—a process that gives equivalent text a consistent form—can change 𣏃 to 𣏃, removing the separate value needed to identify the original entry.