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鳽

cjk compatibility ideograph-2fa0c

CJK compatibility ideograph 2FA0C

鳽 is a compatibility encoding for 鳽, an old Han character recorded as a waterbird name in the Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary. It preserves a source entry from Taiwan's CNS 11643; Unicode normalization can fold it back to 鳽.

Text symbol
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2FA0C · 鳽 · CNS 11643 · HTML character reference
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 鳽 means

It keeps a Taiwanese source distinction reversible. CNS 11643-1992 is a Taiwanese character-encoding standard.

Within that standard, its source entry is T4-5A59 in plane 4, one numbered section of the character set. Unicode maps that entry to 鳽 so conversion into Unicode and back can retain the original source identity. For ordinary text, use the unified Han character 鳽.

For standards conversion and archival data, not ordinary chat.

Questions people ask

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Can normalization change 鳽?

Yes. Unicode canonical normalization can turn it into 鳽. To retain this glyph distinction, use the standardized sequence 鳽︀: 鳽 followed by U+FE00, Variation Selector-1. That sequence remains distinct through normalization.

How to type 鳽

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2FA0C, then Alt+X to get 鳽.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk compatibility ideograph-2fa0c”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2fa0c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鳽
CSS
\2FA0C
HTML
In HTML markup, write `鳽` to produce 鳽.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鳽
HTML hex
鳽
CSS content
content: "\2FA0C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AF%A8%8C
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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