What 爫 means
It is a compatibility form of the claw component 爫.
JIS X 0213 is a Japanese character set; 爫 lets one of its source forms survive conversion to Unicode and back. Unicode normalization, a standard text-cleanup step, can merge it with 爫. For ordinary Han writing, 爫 is the practical form.
爫 is a claw component. Japanese calls this top-of-character form つめかんむり, literally “claw crown.” In Chữ Nôm, a historical character-based script for writing Vietnamese, 爫 represented làm (“to do” or “to make”) in texts dated 1870–1940.
Who writes 爫
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 爫 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 爫
- Search it as
- U+FA49 · FA49 · 爫 · 爪 · claw component · JIS X 0213 · つめかんむり · CJK
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
爫\FA49Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.