What 虜 means
In Chinese, 虜 means “to capture” or “a captive.”
Bronze inscriptions use 虜 in a personal name; Warring States Chu writing and seal script show later forms. Classical texts use it for captives and enslaved people, sometimes as a contemptuous label for enemies.
Why does it normalize to 虜?
Unicode normalization maps this form to 虜, even in NFC.
Taiwan’s CNS 11643-1992 character set needed a separate code for round-trip conversion through Unicode. The standardized sequence 虜︁ (U865C UFE01) preserves that distinction through normalization.
This is a legacy-text form; the Chinese word underneath describes capture or captivity.
It is not a neutral label for someone; historical uses include enslaved people and enemies.
Who writes 虜
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 虜 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 虜
- Search it as
- 虏 · prisoner · captive
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
虜\2F9B4Why is 虜 a box on my screen?
fsymbols draws rare signs with its own fonts, so they show here even where your device has none. An app or website without such a font shows an empty box (□) or a question mark instead. Turn our fonts off to see each sign as your device draws it by itself: a box here means a box in your chats and documents too.
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.