What 塚 means
It means the same mound-or-tomb character as 塚.
The two forms share the Japanese reading つか (tsuka); 塚 is standard in ordinary Japanese text. It names a mound, especially a burial mound or grave marker.
Japanese references describe 塚 as a later form of 冢, an older character for a raised burial mound. Unicode included 塚 as a compatibility character for the IBM 32 Japanese encoding, so text converted to Unicode and back could retain its original form.
Why does 塚 become 塚?
Compatibility normalization can rewrite 塚 as 塚.
Text processing that applies compatibility normalization treats the two forms as equivalent and may replace 塚 with 塚. That helps with text matching, but it can erase the exact form required in someone's name or an archival record.
Technical, archival, or name-specific: it signals that an older Japanese character form is being preserved.
Don't replace it casually in a person's name; the meaning may stay while the requested form is lost.
Who writes 塚
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 塚 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.
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塚\FA10Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.