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𪾵

cjk unified ideograph-2afb5

Japanese character for scolding

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𪾵 is a Japanese-created character read しかる (shikaru), “to scold”; the familiar Japanese spelling is 叱る. A Japanese character dictionary cites it in Saikaku’s Nagori no Tomo, a collection of stories about poets published after his death in 1699; one line describes someone scolding with eyes wide open.

Text symbol

What 𪾵 means

𪾵 is the cjk unified ideograph-2afb5. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𪾵 is a single code point, U2AFB5. In HTML that is 𪾵, and in CSS \2AFB5.

Who writes 𪾵

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𪾵 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 𪾵

Search it as
shikaru · しかる · 叱る · scold
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 2AFB5, then AltX to get 𪾵.
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-2afb5”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 2afb5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𪾵
CSS
\2AFB5
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𪾵
HTML hex
𪾵
CSS content
content: "\2AFB5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AA%BE%B5
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

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols