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𮂊

cjk unified ideograph-2e08a

福 variant form

𮂊 carries 福’s sense of blessing, happiness, and good fortune. The familiar 福 appears on Chinese Spring Festival doors; its oldest forms picture wine offered in ritual.

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What 𮂊 means

It is another written form of 福.

The older 福 first appears in oracle-bone inscriptions—writing carved on animal bones and turtle shells for divination. Early forms show hands raising wine at an altar, a prayer for abundance and protection; later scripts regularized the character.

Why is 福 turned upside down?

It turns a New Year wish into a pun about fortune arriving.

In a long-standing Chinese Spring Festival custom, 福 is placed on doors as a wish for happiness and good fortune. In Mandarin, 倒 (dào, inverted) sounds like 到 (dào, arrive), so an upside-down sign hints that fortune has arrived.

Questions people ask

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Why does 𮂊 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 𮂊

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2E08A, then Alt+X to get 𮂊.
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-2e08a”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2e08a, then Enter or Space.
HTML
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CSS
\2E08A
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𮂊
HTML hex
𮂊
CSS content
content: "\2E08A";
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URL encoded
%F0%AE%82%8A
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes

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