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嬿

cjk unified ideograph-5b3f

Chinese character 嬿

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嬿 is a literary Chinese character used in women's names, with senses of beauty, marital harmony, and ease. In the phrase 嬿婉, it appears in descriptions of beauty or marital harmony.

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What 嬿 means

It means beauty, harmony, or ease; it is also a name character.

嬿 is used in women's names and literary Chinese. The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, records it as a woman's name character; it says 女 (woman) points to meaning and 燕 supplies the sound. Chinese poems from the Jin and Liang dynasties use 嬿婉 for beauty or marital harmony; writing from the Liu Song dynasty also uses 嬿 for ease.

Its word senses are literary; it is also used as a woman's name character.

Who writes 嬿

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Combination ideas

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嬿婉 meaning: a literary phrase for beauty or harmony between spouses.

Questions people ask

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Why does 嬿 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 嬿

Search it as
嬿 meaning · 嬿婉 · 嬿字 · yàn · yan4 · 嬊 · 𡤈
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 5B3F, then AltX to get 嬿.
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-5b3f”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 5b3f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
嬿
CSS
\5B3F
how to type 嬿
In a Mandarin pinyin IME, enter yan4 (4 marks the tone) and select 嬿.
Cangjie input
Cangjie is a shape-based Chinese input method; its code for 嬿 is VTLF.
If 嬿 appears as a box
Check font support; Taiwan's 2024 CNS11643 listing names Windows 10 SimSun and KaiTi as supporting fonts.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
嬿
HTML hex
嬿
CSS content
content: "\5B3F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%AC%BF
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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.

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