What 𱴪 means
To keep local names writable in records.
The 2017 proposal says residents needed to enter characters appearing in village names and researchers needed the forms for place-name records. It cites page 650 of 崔恒升’s 2003 reference 中国古今地理通名集解, a book about generic geographical terms, for this specific form.
Who writes 𱴪
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𱴪 show as a box on some devices?
It is recent: Unicode added it in version 15.0 (2022), and phones and computers whose fonts are older than that have nothing to draw it with. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
How to type or find 𱴪
- Search it as
- rare character · place name · Chinese character · geography · CJK character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𱴪\31D2ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

