What 𮵎 means
It is a rare Chinese character from an identity-record font.
China’s Ministry of Public Security made that font for registering resident identity cards. This character belongs to its supplementary set of rare name characters missing from earlier national and international standards.
Why was 𮵎 given a shared code?
So identity records could preserve the exact name across systems.
Before standardization, some characters in the font had private-use code positions, which different systems could assign differently. Unicode added 𮵎 in Extension I in 2023, giving it a shared text value.
It belongs to formal identity data; its practical context is an exact name record.
Don’t replace it with a familiar character in someone’s name; that changes what the record says.
Who writes 𮵎
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𮵎 show as a box?
A font without this character may show a missing-character box. Unicode added it in Extension I in 2023, so a font made earlier needs an update or a compatible fallback font to display it.
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How to type or find 𮵎
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- rare · hanzi · name · identity · id · registry · font
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𮵎\2ED4ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.