What 𮴜 means
Unicode’s source record links this exact character to China’s Ministry of Public Security system for registering identity cards. That traces its administrative source, not the first appearance of its written form.
During the 2023 standards update, China reported that some characters in the resident-registration font had only private-use codes: local numbers that software could interpret only when it had the same font. Giving the wider set standard codes made rare characters in personal and place names easier to exchange between systems.
Who writes 𮴜
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𮴜 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 𮴜
- Search it as
- hanzi · han · ideograph · pua · identity · escape
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𮴜\2ED1C\u{2ED1C} in a JavaScript string. Four-digit UTF-16 escapes need the pair \uD87B\uDD1C.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.