What 𱏿 means
It names a village near Rizhao, Shandong. Residents’ account traces the character to 1756, when ancestors are said to have coined it for the settlement. They explain its left part, 冫, as two waterways and its right part, 口, as the village where they meet.
Why is 𱏿 written as 栈?
The village switched to 栈 after the rare form proved hard to enter. In a 2022 report, residents said dictionaries did not include it and computer input methods could not produce it; 栈 has the same sound in this place name.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𱏿 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 𱏿
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 313FF, then Alt+X to get 𱏿.
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-313ff”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 313ff, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𱏿CSS
\313FFCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𱏿
HTML hex
𱏿
CSS content
content: "\313FF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%B1%8F%BF
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.