What means
The standards trail begins with the 2023 GIDC23-171 source entry in China's Ministry of Public Security character ID system. It places in a supplementary population-information font.
A 2023 proposal says the set answered a need: rare personal and place names had to work in citizen identification and public services. China added the set to GB 18030; Unicode encoded it for exchange across systems.
If it appears as a box, the current font lacks a glyph for this character. Extension I entered Unicode in 2023, so older fonts may not display it; the text itself remains .
Questions people ask
1Why does 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
𮲚\2EC9ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
