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𫒎

cjk unified ideograph-2b48e

Japanese mercury kanji

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This Japanese mercury kanji, 𫒎, is read みずかね (mizukane). Japanese also writes the element as 水銀; 汞 is another character for the same substance. It belongs to kokuji, the tradition of kanji coined in Japan.

Text symbol

What 𫒎 means

It writes みずかね (mizukane), a Japanese word for mercury.

This mercury kanji is a kokuji, a character coined in Japan. Its parts are 金 (“metal”) and 水 (“water”); the glyph orders them metal-water while the spoken compound means “water-metal.”

Who writes 𫒎

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𫒎 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 𫒎

Search it as
mercury kanji · mizukane · kokuji
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 2B48E, then AltX to get 𫒎.
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-2b48e”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 2b48e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𫒎
CSS
\2B48E
How do I type 𫒎 in Word for Windows?
As of 2026-10-03, enter 2B48E and press AltX; select just the code first if adjacent text could be read as part of it.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𫒎
HTML hex
𫒎
CSS content
content: "\2B48E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AB%92%8E
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.

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