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by chungy
3385 days ago
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> The current largest codepoint? Why that would be a cheese wedge at U+1F9C0. How did we ever communicate before this? Sounds cute, but inaccurate. If we count the last two planes that are reserved for private use (aka, applications/users can use them for whatever domain problems they like), that would be U+10FFFD. If we count the variation selector codepoints (used for things like changing skin tone, or the look of certain other characters), U+E01EF. If we count the last honestly-for-real-written-language character assigned, it would be 𪘀 U+2FA1D CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2FA. But I suppose none of that sounds as fun as an emoji (which are really a very small part of the Unicode standard). |
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It is a Traditional Chinese character. It's a variant of U+2F600, 𪘀, which is pronounced "pián". It apparently is used in zero words. It's in Unicode because it's listed in the 7th section of TCA-CNS 11643-1992, a Taiwanese computing standard.
Searching for it gives lots of sites that acknowledge that it's a character that exists and then provide no definition for it.
My guess: it occurred in someone's name at some point. Pretty strange that it ended up requiring a compatibility mapping, though, when nobody seems to use the character or the character it's mapped to!