Japanese name form 﨩

It is a rare Japanese name form linked to 島.

In a surname, 﨩 can be read しま (Shima); in the place name 姫子﨩, it is read ひめこじま (Himekojima). The surrounding name determines the reading.

Records for the shrine on Okamura Island date its foundation to 779 under the name Mishima Shrine (三島神社), then say it took the name Himekojima Shrine in Meiji 4, the fourth year of Japan’s Meiji era. These dates trace the shrine’s story, not the character’s first written use.

Why is 﨩 a compatibility ideograph?

The block label comes from encoding history; Unicode treats 﨩 as unified.

The block includes forms kept for compatibility with older encoding systems. Unicode 17.0 identifies 﨩 as one of 12 “U-source” ideographs treated as unified; the source tag comes from the Unicode Han database. Here, unified means it is not treated as a duplicate of another character.

The ordinary reference is 島, the Japanese character for island. Japanese lexicographic sources list 﨩 as its variant, but Unicode gives it no decomposition mapping to 島, so normalization will not turn it into 島. Keep the exact spelling supplied by a name or document.

Fonts control the appearance: one may draw 﨩 differently, while a font without it may show a missing-character box or a fallback glyph.

What if someone sends 﨩 alone?

Alone, 﨩 cannot identify its intended name or reading.

A message with only this character lacks the surrounding name that distinguishes its uses. Ask which person, place, or source spelling the sender means before treating it as a word or replying.