What 𰣺 means
Yes: Unicode’s reference form for it is 病. 病 means illness or disease in Chinese and Japanese. It also appears figuratively for a personal failing or a social ill.
A 2015 submission from the United Kingdom to Unicode cites this form at page 306, figure 325, of Sarah Allan’s Buried Ideas. The book transcribes texts written on bamboo slips—narrow pieces of bamboo used as pages—from China’s Warring States period, a pre-imperial era. This character preserves an exact written form for scholarly transcription.
Who writes 𰣺
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𰣺 appear as a box?
A font or app may lack a glyph for this rare character. The text can still contain 𰣺 even when the screen cannot draw it.
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How to type or find 𰣺
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- 病 variant · 𰣺 meaning · 病 form · 𰣺 font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𰣺CSS
\308FACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𰣺
HTML hex
𰣺
CSS content
content: "\308FA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%B0%A3%BA
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On screen
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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.