What 芽 means
It is a compatibility form of 芽, meaning “bud” or “sprout.”
Why does 芽 have a separate code?
To preserve the CNS 11643 entry during two-way conversion.
CNS 11643 is Taiwan’s national standard for encoding Chinese characters. Its sixth character table assigns this form a separate entry; Unicode preserves the mapping so text can convert there and back.
A data-preservation form, not a separate everyday word.
Normalization, a software step that standardizes text, maps 芽 to 芽 and loses the separate code.
Who writes 芽
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 芽 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 芽
- Search it as
- cns 11643 · t6-2e22 · u+2f995 · 芽 · 芽
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
芽\2F995Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.