What 兀 means
It preserves an older Big5 character mapping.
Unicode 17.0 lists 兀 as a Big5 duplicate; Big5 was an older Chinese encoding. One account of early Chinese writing says 兀 and 元 began as one sign before separating. Later Chinese senses include standing bare or tall and being dazed; Japanese also uses it for single-minded effort.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Will normalization keep 兀?
No. Unicode 17.0 normalization maps 兀 to 兀; the standardized sequence 兀 + U+FE00 preserves its variant form.
How to type 兀
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType FA0C, then Alt+X to get 兀.
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-fa0c”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType fa0c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
兀CSS
\FA0CCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
兀
HTML hex
兀
CSS content
content: "\FA0C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EF%A8%8C
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.