What 獺 means
獺 represents 獺, the Han character for otter. Taiwan's CNS 11643-1992 is a character-encoding standard; it lists this form at source position 7-4775 for round-trip conversion.
The Chinese character dictionary Shuowen Jiezi, compiled around 100 CE, describes 獺 as an animal that lives in water and eats fish. Its graph uses 犬 to mark the animal category and 賴 as a sound cue.
Why does 獺 become 獺?
NFKC and NFKD fold compatibility forms to their unified equivalents. These Unicode normalization forms change 獺 to 獺; NFC and NFD preserve the distinction. Keep the original before compatibility normalization if its CNS source code matters.
If no available font includes this supplementary ideograph, the screen may show a missing-character box; that is a font-coverage issue, not a change to the character.
Who writes 獺
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Questions people ask
1Why does 獺 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 獺
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- 獺 · CNS 7-4775 · CNS 11643 · unicode normalization · NFKC · variation sequence
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
獺\2F928Codes and encoding1 code points
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