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𧸮

cjk unified ideograph-27e2e

𧸮 (Mandarin reading wéi)

In Min, a regional branch of Chinese, 𧸮 means “to spy on or keep watch on someone.” Its Mandarin reading is wéi. In a sentence, the surrounding words show who is watching whom.

Text symbol
Search it as
wéi · wei · spy on · keep watch · min chinese
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𧸮 means

𧸮 is the cjk unified ideograph-27e2e. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𧸮 is a single code point, U+27E2E. In HTML that is 𧸮, and in CSS \27E2E.

Questions people ask

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Why does 𧸮 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.

How to type 𧸮

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 27E2E, then Alt+X to get 𧸮.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-27e2e”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 27e2e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𧸮
CSS
\27E2E
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𧸮
HTML hex
𧸮
CSS content
content: "\27E2E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%A7%B8%AE
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

2

Chinese characters99,354 symbols

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols