What 育 means
It is a compatibility form of 育. In Chinese, 育 can mean “grow” or “nurture, educate”; 教育 means “education.”
The Unicode chart maps 育 to the plane 6 entry in CNS 11643-1992 and to 育. The extra code point lets CNS text round-trip through Unicode without losing its source mapping.
Use 育 in ordinary writing; keep 育 when preserving the source encoding matters.
Questions people ask
1Can 育 survive Unicode normalization?
Yes. Unicode defines 育 followed by U+FE00 as this character’s standardized variation sequence, which remains unchanged during normalization. The text software and font must support the sequence to show the intended form.
How to type 育
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2F982, then Alt+X to get 育.
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-2f982”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2f982, then Enter or Space.
HTML
育CSS
\2F982Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
育
HTML hex
育
CSS content
content: "\2F982";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AF%A6%82
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.