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𪃶

cjk unified ideograph-2a0f6

Hóu (old bird name)

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𪃶 is an old Chinese name for a bird of prey, read hóu in Mandarin. It appears in a Western Han poem by Yang Xiong, Shu du fu (“Description of Shu”), among remarkable creatures of the Shu region around Chengdu. A dictionary glosses it as a kind of eagle said to come from the Kunlun Mountains.

Text symbol

What 𪃶 means

𪃶 is the cjk unified ideograph-2a0f6. 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

𪃶 is a single code point, U2A0F6. In HTML that is 𪃶, and in CSS \2A0F6.

Who writes 𪃶

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𪃶 show as a box on my screen?

It is a missing-glyph placeholder: the font or renderer cannot draw 𪃶, so it shows a box or another mark. The character can still be present in your text even when the display system lacks its glyph.

How to type or find 𪃶

Search it as
hóu · eagle · raptor · 䳧
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 2A0F6, then AltX to get 𪃶.
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-2a0f6”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 2a0f6, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𪃶
CSS
\2A0F6
Microsoft Word for Windows
As of 2026, type 2A0F6, then press AltX; select only the code if hex text comes immediately before it.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𪃶
HTML hex
𪃶
CSS content
content: "\2A0F6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AA%83%B6
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

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols