What 墳 means
It means a grave or raised burial mound.
The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, glosses 墳 as a tomb. In older Chinese usage, 墳 could also mean an embankment or high bank, raised or fertile earth, or “ancient books” in compounds.
Unicode includes 墳 for round-trip compatibility with the legacy KPS 10721-2000 text standard. That role preserves a distinction in older data; it does not create a second everyday word.
How do I keep 墳 intact?
Keep it only when the source needs that exact legacy form.
Unicode compatibility normalization can map 墳 to 墳. If a conversion must preserve KPS 10721-2000 data, compare the character value before and after processing.
Fonts draw this as text, so missing coverage may show a placeholder and supported fonts may give it different shapes. Check the underlying character value when exact identity matters.
Technical and archival: it marks a legacy encoding distinction, not a different word or tone.
Do not swap it into ordinary text for appearance; normalization and search may treat it as 墳.
Who writes 墳
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Questions people ask
2Why does 墳 become 墳?
Unicode compatibility normalization does this: it substitutes 墳, the mapped equivalent. The original character value remains only if the data path preserves the legacy distinction.
Should I use 墳 in ordinary writing?
No. Use 墳 in ordinary Chinese or Japanese text; keep 墳 for data that must preserve the KPS 10721-2000 distinction.
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How to type or find 墳
- Search it as
- 墳 · 墳 · 坟 · FA7D · grave character · tomb character · burial mound character · legacy form of 墳
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
墳\FA7DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.