Exploring the Depths of Unicode’s Complex Symbols | August 09 2026, 12:22

It’s amazing that Unicode includes such complex “characters” as shown in the picture. This is a single character. When the Unicode table had accommodated all the alphabets of the world, arrows, circles, and there was still a ton of free space left that needed filling, the capacity was used up. It has space for about 1.1 million characters, and font designers are doing their best) Chinese and Korean occupy 71% of the existing characters.

Also, Unicode includes some cool ligatures. For example, the following text is one “character” ﷽ (Basmala). Here on Facebook, it doesn’t display quite right because of the fonts, the full version can be seen here: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%EF%B7%BD where ﷺ and ﷻ also live

Moreover, Unicode includes hieroglyphs that do not exist. An investigation in 1997 discovered, for example, the origin of 妛: the compilers wanted to record “山 over 女,” but could not print the composite sign — so they printed 山 and 女 separately, cut them out with scissors, glued them on a sheet and made a copy. On the copy, the seam line of the two pieces of paper looked like a stroke and was included in the hieroglyph. Now it remains so forever

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