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𨪺

cjk unified ideograph-28aba

鍤 variant

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𨪺 is a rare variant of 鍤 (chā), a Chinese character for a spade or shovel. The early Chinese character dictionary Shuowen Jiezi glosses 鍤 as a long needle used to stretch cloth flat for sewing; Han-era histories use it for digging.

Text symbol

What 𨪺 means

𨪺 is the cjk unified ideograph-28aba. 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

𨪺 is a single code point, U28ABA. In HTML that is 𨪺, and in CSS \28ABA.

Who writes 𨪺

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𨪺 show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.

How to type or find 𨪺

Search it as
鍤 · 锸 · shovel · spade · chā
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 28ABA, then AltX to get 𨪺.
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-28aba”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 28aba, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𨪺
CSS
\28ABA
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𨪺
HTML hex
𨪺
CSS content
content: "\28ABA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%A8%AA%BA
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