What 𮳤 means
A Chinese dictionary printed in 1596 pairs it with 烧 (“burn”).
It appears under 火, the fire radical used to group character entries. That historical gloss can help with an older text, but it does not establish how a particular person’s name should be read; the surrounding record matters.
Why was 𮳤 added to Chinese character standards?
It helps public systems exchange rare characters in names and places.
Unicode encoded it in CJK Extension I in 2023. China’s GB 18030 is the national character-encoding standard; a 2024 amendment included these Extension I characters from the Public Security Population Information Special Font, a specialist digital set for population records. The stated aim was to let public systems exchange rare characters used in personal names and place names.
Who writes 𮳤
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𮳤 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.
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How to type or find 𮳤
- Search it as
- hanzi · gb18030
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𮳤\2ECE4𮳤; a browser needs a font that contains the glyph.\u{2ECE4} in a JavaScript string. UTF-16 stores it as two 16-bit units (code units), so unit-by-unit counting can report two.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.