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𩭙

cjk unified ideograph-29b59

Hair-Counting Character

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𩭙 is read jīng in Mandarin and serves as a hair counter: it counts individual strands. A Chinese dictionary glosses it as 茎 and specifies hair as the thing counted. Unicode lists 𩬣 as its simplified variant.

Text symbol

What 𩭙 means

𩭙 is the cjk unified ideograph-29b59. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𩭙 is a single code point, U29B59. In HTML that is 𩭙, and in CSS \29B59.

Who writes 𩭙

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𩭙 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 or find 𩭙

Search it as
hair counter · hair strand · jīng character
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 29B59, then AltX to get 𩭙.
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-29b59”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 29b59, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𩭙
CSS
\29B59
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𩭙
HTML hex
𩭙
CSS content
content: "\29B59";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%A9%AD%99
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.

Families this belongs to

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