What 蘒 means
It is a rare Japanese name form read はぎ (ha-gi). Japanese references listed it among forms used in surnames and personal names as of 2026-09-14. It is related to the familiar form 萩, but a person's chosen written form still matters.
In this Japanese variant chain, 萩 is the familiar form; 蘒 writes the 秋 part of 萩 using 穐, and 蘒 is an older-form counterpart of 蘒. At the time it was encoded, 蘒 preserved an existing Japanese spelling distinction for text interchange.
How do I keep 蘒 when saving?
Avoid NFKC normalization when the exact form matters. It can change 蘒 to 蘒, replacing the older-form distinction.
A font may draw related Han forms differently, so appearance alone does not show that the stored character changed. Check the actual character in the saved text.
Formal and name-specific: it marks an exact written form, not a casual tone.
Do not silently replace 蘒 with 萩 in a person's name; confirm the spelling they use.
Who writes 蘒
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 蘒 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Compatibility Ideographs block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 蘒
- Also called
- hagi · はぎ
- Search it as
- hagi surname · 萩 · 蘒 · Japanese surname character · Japanese name variant
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
蘒\FA20Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.