What 寉 means
It means “crane” in later use, and “high” in older glosses.
A dictionary catalogs an oracle-bone ancestor for it. The medieval Longkan Shoujian glosses 寉 as “high,” an early written word for height. Later dictionaries align it with 鶴; 寉 is the phonetic part inside the longer crane character. Japanese records tsuru and kaku readings.
This is a written-character choice, not an emoji tone.
Keep 寉 when the exact glyph matters; do not silently replace it with 鶴.
Who writes 寉
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 寉 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 寉
- Search it as
- crane · tsuru · kaku · hè · 鶴 · 隺
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
寉CSS
\5BC9Japanese IME
Enter つる or kaku and select 寉; if you get 鶴, use the palette.
Cangjie
Use JOG in a Cangjie-capable input method.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
寉
HTML hex
寉
CSS content
content: "\5BC9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%AF%89
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On screen
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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.