What 莭 means
Unicode maps 莭 to 莭 when text is normalized.
Unicode kept 莭 for conversion to and from Taiwan’s CNS 11643 character standard; its source is Plane 4, entry T4-3473. Normalization maps it to U83AD 莭. The sequence U83AD UFE00 uses invisible UFE00 to request the variant glyph, if a font supports it.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education lists 莭 as a variant of 節 in its 2024 dictionary. It cites the Jiyun, a Song-era rhyme dictionary compiled in 1037, and says 莭 is absent from the earlier Shuowen character dictionary.
Who writes 莭
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Questions people ask
1Why does 莭 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 莭
- Search it as
- 2f99b · 莭 · cns 11643 · normalization
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
莭\2F99BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.