What 﨓 means
It writes the Japanese name for the tabunoki tree.
In Japanese, 﨓 is read たぶ (ta-bu) and is a kokuji: a kanji created in Japan. It names tabunoki, an evergreen tree in the laurel family. Japanese references treat it as a Japanese-created alternate of 椨; both forms name the same tree.
The 1603–04 Nippo Jisho, an early Portuguese–Japanese dictionary, records the tree name as 椨 and たぶのき. That entry attests the name, not necessarily this exact spelling. Later Japanese references place 椨 in place names and surnames. A horticultural account also links the tree with Chinese 楠, a regional naming connection rather than a spelling variant.
Why might 﨓 display differently from 椨?
They are distinct characters, and rare-glyph support varies.
Font and environment support can change how 﨓 displays or leave it missing. As of 2026, a Japanese character reference labels its appearance environment-dependent, and a university guide lists it among variant glyphs that can fail outside matching environments.
Unicode classifies 﨓 among 12 source-unique Han ideographs without a canonical decomposition mapping. Normalization is not a way to turn it into 椨. Preserve 﨓 when an exact source spelling or record matters.
Specialized Japanese spelling for a tree name; it carries no chat tone.
Keep 﨓 in exact transcriptions; 椨 names the same tree but is a different character.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 﨓 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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How to type or find 﨓
- Also called
- 椨 · たぶ · tabu
- Search it as
- タブノキ · 椨の木 · Japanese tree kanji
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
﨓\FA13\uFA13 in a string literal to produce this character; it is a code escape, not a normal keyboard sequence.﨓 in HTML; in a CSS string, use \00FA13 (for example, content: "\00FA13";).Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.