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𪗈

cjk unified ideograph-2a5c8

Chinese character for illness

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𪗈 is recorded as an alternate written form of 𪗅, a Chinese character glossed as “illness.” The Ming-era character dictionary 篇海類編 (Piānhǎi lèibiān) links the forms; 玉篇 (Yupian, “Jade Chapters”), first compiled around 543, gives 𪗅’s illness gloss.

Text symbol

What 𪗈 means

𪗈 is the cjk unified ideograph-2a5c8. 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

𪗈 is a single code point, U2A5C8. In HTML that is 𪗈, and in CSS \2A5C8.

Who writes 𪗈

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𪗈 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 𪗈

Search it as
𪗈 · 𪗅 · 病 · illness character
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 2A5C8, then AltX to get 𪗈.
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-2a5c8”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 2a5c8, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𪗈
CSS
\2A5C8
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𪗈
HTML hex
𪗈
CSS content
content: "\2A5C8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AA%97%88
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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