What 䵹 means
It means “spider.” The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, records 䵹 as a spider name.
The spider character behind 蜘 has an oracle-bone ancestor: a spider on its web, drawn in ancient writing carved on bones and turtle shells. Later forms passed through shapes involving 黽 and 虫. Historical texts also preserve 䵹鼄, 土䵹蛛 and 草䵹蛛, habitat-linked names used across regions called Qin–Jin, Zhao–Wei, Jiangdong and Yan–Korea.
Historical and specialist; 蜘蛛 (“spider”) is the familiar everyday Chinese word.
Who writes 䵹
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Questions people ask
1Why does 䵹 show as a box?
A font may lack its glyph, so the text renderer substitutes a box. A font that supports 䵹 displays its form.
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How to type or find 䵹
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- 䵹 meaning · 䵹 variant of 蜘 · 䵹鼄
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
䵹CSS
\4D79Microsoft Word
Type 4D79, then press AltX to convert the hexadecimal Unicode value to 䵹.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
䵹
HTML hex
䵹
CSS content
content: "\4D79";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E4%B5%B9
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.