What 灷 means
To preserve a CNS 11643 code position through conversion.
CNS 11643 is Taiwan’s national standard for encoding Chinese characters. The CNS 11643-1992 entry has this compatibility form 灷, which Unicode maps to the regular text character 灷. Keeping the separate form lets text convert to Unicode and back without losing the original entry. For normal writing, use 灷.
What did 灷 mean in early dictionaries?
Early dictionaries gloss 灷 as fire-starting material.
The Yupian, an early medieval Chinese character dictionary compiled around 543 during the Liang dynasty, glosses 灷 as fire-starting material for the Mandarin reading zhuàn. Taiwan’s 2024 Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants also records 灷 with a Mandarin jìn reading as a variant form of 燼, “embers or ash.”
A standards character whose separate code preserves one CNS 11643 distinction.
NFC or NFD normalization can turn 灷 into 灷.
Who writes 灷
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Questions people ask
1Why does 灷 turn into 灷?
Because Unicode’s canonical mapping points to 灷: its text-normalization forms NFC and NFD turn 灷 into 灷. Unicode also defines 灷 followed by UFE00 as a standard character-plus-selector sequence for requesting the compatibility glyph.
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How to type or find 灷
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- 灷 · 灷 variant · 𤆽 · cns 11643 · zhuan · jin
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Codes and encoding1 code points
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