What 甆 means
甆 is a variant of 瓷, the Chinese character for porcelain.
The Dà Xǔ edition of the Chinese character dictionary Shuowen Jiezi records 甆 as an added form; later dictionaries Longkan, Guangyun, Jiyun, and Kangxi also list it.
Unicode associates 甆 with 甆 and records the source mapping KP1-5A5D under KPS 10721-2000, a North Korean supplementary standard for Hanja, the Chinese characters used in Korean. This compatibility character lets conversion back to that standard retain the original character assignment.
Should I use 甆 in ordinary Chinese text?
No. Use 甆 only when a source record needs that legacy identity.
Use 瓷 in ordinary Chinese prose; 甆 is a recorded variant. Compatibility normalization NFKC or NFKD can reduce 甆 to 甆 and erase its separate code point. The Unicode 18.0 code chart also specifies 甆 followed by UFE00 (Variation Selector-1) to request the compatibility glyph; whether it displays as intended depends on editor and font support.
This is a source-preservation character for legacy text processing.
If the source character assignment matters, compatibility normalization can erase it.
Who writes 甆
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why did 甆 become 甆?
Compatibility normalization can do that. NFKC or NFKD applies 甆’s compatibility decomposition to 甆, removing the separate code point.
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How to type or find 甆
- Also called
- 甆
- Search it as
- 瓷 · porcelain · Hanja · FAA2 · KPS 10721-2000
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
甆\FAA2Codes and encoding1 code points
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