What means
It was added to support rare names in identity checks.
In 2023, experts reviewed more than 900 candidates and settled on 622 characters for a special font used by China’s public-security system to record residents’ names. The set supports checks against registered names; Unicode lists as GIDC23-302, from the Ministry of Public Security’s 2023 ID system.
In 2024, the amendment took effect, aligning these characters with Unicode for data exchange.
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
A square usually means the app or font lacks a glyph. The text may still contain ; display depends on Unicode handling and font coverage.
How to type or find
- Search it as
- hanzi · rare character · Chinese name character · 2ED1D
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𮴝\2ED1D𮴝 in HTML text or markup.\u{2ED1D} inside a JavaScript string literal.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

