What 鈸 means
It maps to 鈸, the Chinese character for cymbals.
Taiwan’s CNS 11643 catalogue records it as source entry 15-4573. The extra code point lets that character repertoire round-trip through Unicode without collapsing the source entry. On Windows, the Taiwan CNS character package documents Unicode-code input after installation.
The mapped character names a pair of raised metal disks struck together. An account of drum-and-board music in Taiwan’s Matsu Islands traces the instruments’ arrival from India with Indian music around the 4th century, places them in Tang-dynasty court music, and describes their wider use in court music, theater, and dance after the Song dynasty.
Why does 鈸 change to 鈸?
Unicode normalization replaces it with 鈸.
Normalization is a standard text-cleanup step. Unicode defines 鈸 as this character’s normalized equivalent, so cleanup can replace 鈸 with 鈸; afterward, the separate code point is gone.
A CNS compatibility form of the Chinese cymbal character 鈸, kept for reliable text conversion.
Normalization can replace 鈸 with 鈸 and erase its separate code point.
Who writes 鈸
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Questions people ask
1Why does 鈸 show as a box on Windows?
The Taiwan CNS character record, as of 2026, says default Windows fonts do not include it. A font containing this glyph, such as one supplied through the CNS package, is needed to display it.
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How to type or find 鈸
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- cns · cns 11643 · 15-4573 · 鈸 · cymbal · cymbals · unicode normalization · 2f9e7
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鈸\2F9E7Codes and encoding1 code points
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