What 𱏤 means
To preserve exact characters used in local place names.
A 2017 Unicode proposal cites a place-name entry in Anfu County’s 1986 gazetteer. Its author says unencoded local-name characters inconvenienced researchers and residents who needed to use them.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𱏤 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 𱏤
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 313E4, then Alt+X to get 𱏤.
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-313e4”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 313e4, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𱏤CSS
\313E4Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𱏤
HTML hex
𱏤
CSS content
content: "\313E4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%B1%8F%A4
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.