What 𮗑 means
The HTML entity for this Sawndip character is 𮗑. The Unicode escapes are \u{2E5D1} in JavaScript and \U0002E5D1 in Python. Both identify 𮗑 even if a font cannot display its glyph.
Because 𮗑 is above UFFFF, UTF-16 stores it as a pair of 16-bit code units. Text operations that count code units can split the pair; code-point-aware operations keep it together.
What does 𮗑 mean in Zhuang writing?
It is a Sawndip character used to write Zhuang. Zhuang is a Tai language spoken mainly in Guangxi, southern China. Sawndip, also called Old Zhuang writing, adapts Chinese character forms to spell Zhuang words: some are borrowed, and others are assembled from Chinese components.
An early surviving stele inscription dated 682/683 CE shows square Zhuang characters in formal stone writing. This dates the tradition, not this glyph: Unicode’s source record links 𮗑 to the 1989 Ancient Zhuang Character Dictionary.
The Unihan record gives its customary Zhuang reading as haen*. The asterisk marks a word outside Standard Zhuang vocabulary, so this reading alone is not a translation. Sawndip was never standardized; choices vary among texts and varieties, and an alphabetic standard for Standard Zhuang was introduced in 1957.
Who writes 𮗑
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Questions people ask
1Why can a program count 𮗑 as two characters?
UTF-16 represents code points above UFFFF with two 16-bit units called a surrogate pair. Together they encode this one character; software that counts code units may split the pair.
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𮗑\2E5D1𮗑 in HTML markup.\u{2E5D1} in a JavaScript string.\U0002E5D1 in a Python string.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.