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cjk compatibility ideograph-fa0e

CJK compatibility ideograph FA0E

﨎 is a compatibility variant associated with 雙, the traditional Chinese character for “pair”; ordinary Japanese writing uses 双. Its exact identity matters in preserved text because Unicode normalization leaves it separate.

Text symbol
Search it as
FA0E · U+FA0E · 﨎 · 雙 · 双 · 﨎 variant
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 﨎 means

It preserves a distinct form from an older Japanese character set.

The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, depicts 雙 as a hand holding two birds; later meanings include pair, two, parallel, and match.

Unicode kept 﨎 as a compatibility form so text from IBM’s Japanese repertoire could pass into Unicode and back without losing it. UnicodeData lists no decomposition mapping for FA0E, so Unicode normalization does not turn it into 雙 or 双.

A preservation form for exact-source text or legacy Japanese data.

Don't confuse it with

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双
CJK Unified Ideograph-53Cc
The standard Japanese form for “pair”; it is a different encoded character.

Questions people ask

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Why does 﨎 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type 﨎

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType FA0E, then Alt+X to get 﨎.
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-fa0e”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType fa0e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
﨎
CSS
\FA0E
Cangjie
YGE (卜土水) is the listed Cangjie code; enter it in an IME that supports this character.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
﨎
HTML hex
﨎
CSS content
content: "\FA0E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EF%A8%8E
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
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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