What 𮳂 means
To preserve rare names in Chinese identity records.
Its source tag GIDC23-211 links it to China's Ministry of Public Security ID system in 2023. It belongs to a 622-character supplement for the special font used in public-security population records, assembled for rare personal and place names. A draft of Amendment No. 1 to China's GB 18030-2022 standard says international encoding would let these names move between systems and across borders. Unicode included the set in Extension I in 2023; that dates the computer encoding, not the written form's first use.
Administrative and name-specific: its documented role is to preserve an exact written form in records.
In a person's name, replacing it with a familiar-looking character changes the spelling.
Who writes 𮳂
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𮳂 show as a box?
A font issue. The text can still contain U2ECC2 when the current font cannot draw it; use a font that includes this rare character.
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How to type or find 𮳂
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- 𮳂 · 2ecc2 · hanzi · name · rare · gb18030
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𮳂\2ECC2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.