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𪅸

cjk unified ideograph-2a178

Character for a kind of duck

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𪅸 is a rare variant spelling of 𪃈, an old Chinese character for a kind of duck. The older form appears in the Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary completed in 100 CE; the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary records 𪅸 as a nonstandard form of it.

Text symbol

What 𪅸 means

𪅸 is the cjk unified ideograph-2a178. 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

𪅸 is a single code point, U2A178. In HTML that is 𪅸, and in CSS \2A178.

Who writes 𪅸

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𪅸 show up as a box?

Your font may lack this rare glyph. Taiwan's CNS11643 record (2024) says Windows 10 and later include it in the default Chinese fonts MingLiU and DFKai-SB; other setups depend on installed font coverage.

How to type or find 𪅸

Search it as
𪃈 · duck · jié · jie
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 2A178, then AltX to get 𪅸.
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-2a178”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 2a178, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𪅸
CSS
\2A178
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𪅸
HTML hex
𪅸
CSS content
content: "\2A178";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AA%85%B8
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