What 㼛 means
It preserves a legacy character position from Taiwan's CNS 11643. CNS 11643 is Taiwan's Chinese character-encoding standard. Unicode's supplement lets its characters round-trip through conversion; the mapped unified ideograph here is 㼛.
All four Unicode normalization forms reduce 㼛 to 㼛 because Unicode treats them as canonically equivalent. The standardized sequence 㼛 UFE00 keeps the glyph distinction through normalization.
What did 鈃 mean?
A long-necked wine vessel in early Chinese records. The Chinese character dictionary Shuowen Jiezi, compiled in the Han dynasty, describes 鈃 as a bell-like wine vessel with a long neck.
Later ritual records also use 鈃 for a vessel serving soup. 㼛 is recorded as a variant form of 鈃, so these vessel meanings belong to the older Chinese character behind this code point.
Use this code point when a CNS 11643 source character needs to round-trip; ordinary text normalization retains 㼛.
Normalization can replace 㼛 with 㼛; use its variation sequence when the glyph distinction must survive.
Who writes 㼛
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 㼛 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 㼛
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㼛\2F933Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.