What 荓 means
It represents the same Chinese character, 荓.
Mandarin reads 荓 as píng. Shuowen Jiezi, an early character dictionary, glosses it as 馬帚 (“horse broom”), an old plant name. The Book of Songs, an early Chinese poetry collection, also uses 荓 as a verb meaning “make” or “cause.”
A 1606 edition of 《重訂直音篇》, a Chinese pronunciation-and-rhyme dictionary, records 荓, a variant of 荓. Unicode encoded it for conversion to and from Taiwan’s CNS 11643 Chinese text standard.
Why does 荓 become 荓?
Normalization maps 荓 to 荓.
Normalization standardizes equivalent text and can change this character’s code point. The sequence 荓︀—荓 plus variation selector 1, a nonprinting mark that requests a glyph form, preserves the distinction through normalization when the font supports it.
Who writes 荓
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 荓 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 荓
- Search it as
- cns11643 · 荓 · píng · variant
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
荓\2F9A0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.