What 嫫 means
To write the name 嫫母.
The character is a phonetic-semantic form: 女 marks the woman-related sense, while 莫 supplies the sound. Its early gloss describes an ugly ancient imperial consort; later usage broadened 嫫母 into a label for an ugly woman.
The documented relative is 𡠜, an alternate form with the same sound and meaning.
Classical, obscure, and appearance-loaded.
Applied to a person, it reads as calling them ugly.
Who writes 嫫
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Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1The legendary Huangdi consort; later a label for an ugly woman.
Questions people ask
1Why does 嫫 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 嫫
- Search it as
- momu · mó · mo · 𡠜 · 丑女
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
嫫CSS
\5AEBCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
嫫
HTML hex
嫫
CSS content
content: "\5AEB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%AB%AB
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.