What 𮴻 means
It preserves rare Chinese name characters in official records. This character is part of a supplementary set for China’s public-security population-information system, built for personal and place names that ordinary encodings could not represent.
In 2023, China’s revision of GB 18030 and Unicode’s encoding work standardized 622 characters from this set for digital exchange. That date marks the encoding effort, not the character’s first use.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𮴻 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 𮴻
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2ED3B, then Alt+X to get 𮴻.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-2ed3b”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2ed3b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𮴻CSS
\2ED3BChina Railway 12306
If a rare name character is rejected, use the 12306 registration fallback from 2024: lowercase Hanyu Pinyin (toneless Latin spelling) or a homophone.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𮴻
HTML hex
𮴻
CSS content
content: "\2ED3B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AE%B4%BB
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.