What 𪗘 means
𪗘 is a variant of 齧, meaning “to bite” or “to gnaw.” The Mandarin reading of 齧 is niè. Around 100 CE, the Shuowen, an early Chinese character dictionary, glossed 齧 this way. The 1716 Kangxi Dictionary cites the 1615 Zihui dictionary, which calls 𪗘 a common written form of 啮. The same verb also describes water wearing away earth or a notch left in a broken blade.
A historical dictionary variant; use 齧 as the head form when normalizing a text.
Who writes 𪗘
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-9F67
Chinese variant dictionaries list 𪗘 under 齧, the main dictionary form for “to bite” or “to gnaw.”
CJK Unified Ideograph-556E
This is the simplified Chinese form corresponding to 齧, with the same “bite/gnaw” sense.
CJK Unified Ideograph-5699
Chinese variant dictionaries also group 嚙 under 齧; it is another written form in the same word family.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𪗘 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.
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How to type or find 𪗘
- Search it as
- 齧 · 啮 · 嚙 · 囓 · bite · gnaw
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𪗘CSS
\2A5D8Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𪗘
HTML hex
𪗘
CSS content
content: "\2A5D8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AA%97%98
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.