Compatibility form of 甾

It is an encoded variant of 甾.

Early Chinese inscriptions carved on bone and bronze show 甾 as a woven-bamboo container; the form later settled into 甾. Shuowen Jiezi, an early character dictionary, records an Eastern Chu name for an earthenware drink jar.

Why does 甾 become 甾?

Unicode normalization maps it to 甾.

This form preserves round-trip conversion with Taiwan’s CNS 11643-1992 character encoding. The standardized sequence 甾︀—甾 plus an invisible variation selector—requests the same glyph form and stays distinct under normalization.