What 䈧 means
It names the thin outer skin of a bamboo shoot.
The base character 䈧 appears in the Yùpiān, a Chinese dictionary compiled around 543, as “bamboo-shoot skin.” The Kangxi Dictionary also gives “bamboo skin.”
Why does it have its own code point?
To preserve a source position from an older character set.
A character plane is a numbered section of a character set. Taiwan’s CNS 11643 standard for processing Chinese text began in 1986 and expanded from two planes to seven in 1992. Unicode lists its plane-7 entry as T7-413C, allowing conversion back to CNS without losing that position.
Questions people ask
1Will normalization change the exact character?
Yes. Canonical normalization rewrites 䈧 as 䈧, preserving the reading but changing the code point.
How to type 䈧
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2F964, then Alt+X to get 䈧.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk compatibility ideograph-2f964”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2f964, then Enter or Space.
HTML
䈧CSS
\2F964Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
䈧
HTML hex
䈧
CSS content
content: "\2F964";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AF%A5%A4
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.