What 瑇 means
瑇 encodes 瑇, used in 瑇瑁, the Chinese name for the hawksbill turtle and its shell. The earlier spelling 毒冒 appears in the Han shu (Book of Han), a Han-era history; the patterned shell was worked into ornaments.
It preserves Taiwan's CNS 11643-1992 character-set form when text is converted to Unicode and back. Use 瑇 in ordinary writing.
Who writes 瑇
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 瑇 normalize to 瑇?
Unicode maps 瑇 to 瑇. Normalization, a text cleanup that makes equivalent forms consistent, applies that mapping.
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How to type or find 瑇
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- cjk · han · 瑇 · 玳 · normalization · selector
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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macOS
HTML
瑇CSS
\2F92EPreserve the glyph variant
The standardized sequence is 瑇︀ (瑇 UFE00); the selector requests the glyph variant associated with 瑇.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
瑇
HTML hex
瑇
CSS content
content: "\2F92E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AF%A4%AE
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.