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𨾨

cjk unified ideograph-28fa8

Waterbird variant

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𨾨 is an alternate written form of 𩿢, an old Chinese bird name glossed as a black waterbird resembling a wild duck. The Shuowen Jiezi, a Han dynasty character dictionary completed around 100 CE, records 𩿢; the Jiyun rhyme dictionary lists 𨾨 as its variant.

Text symbol

What 𨾨 means

𨾨 is the cjk unified ideograph-28fa8. 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

𨾨 is a single code point, U28FA8. In HTML that is 𨾨, and in CSS \28FA8.

Who writes 𨾨

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𨾨 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 or find 𨾨

Search it as
𩿢 · waterbird · wild duck · black waterbird
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 28FA8, then AltX to get 𨾨.
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-28fa8”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 28fa8, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𨾨
CSS
\28FA8
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𨾨
HTML hex
𨾨
CSS content
content: "\28FA8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%A8%BE%A8
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