What 椔 means
It names a dead tree that remains upright.
Mandarin reads 椔 as zī. Erya, an early Chinese glossary, calls it a tree dead but still standing; the later dictionary Yupian gives the same gloss. Historical dictionaries record 椔 as a written variant of 椔.
Why is 椔 a compatibility ideograph?
It preserves conversion with Taiwan’s CNS 11643-1992 standard.
Its block preserves round-trip conversion with the Taiwanese CNS 11643-1992 character set; this is an encoding role, not a second lexical meaning. Unicode normalization treats 椔 as canonically equivalent to 椔 and can replace the compatibility code point with it. A raw comparison preserves the distinction; normalized text may erase the source code point.
Who writes 椔
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Questions people ask
1Why does 椔 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 椔
- Search it as
- 椔 · zī · dead tree · cns 11643 · 2f8e6
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
椔\2F8E6Codes and encoding1 code points
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