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嶊

cjk unified ideograph-5d8a

Chinese character 嶊

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嶊 evokes steep, rugged mountain scenery, especially in the classical compounds 嶊崣 and 嶊嶉. Its earliest recorded literary uses are in Western Han fu (Chinese poetic prose); its appearance depends on the font.

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What 嶊 means

It evokes high, craggy mountain terrain.

The fu works 上林賦 and 甘泉賦 by Sima Xiangru (司馬相如) and Yang Xiong (揚雄) use these compounds in landscape passages. Mandarin pinyin spells 嶊 as zuǐ, roughly “tsway” with a third tone that dips and rises.

Does 嶊 make sense alone?

Not without context.

Alone, it offers little conversational context; it names literary mountain scenery.

Classical and rare; it evokes mountain scenery, not a casual mood.

Alone, it can look like a typo or a missing-glyph box.

Who writes 嶊

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Questions people ask

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Why does 嶊 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 嶊

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嶊 meaning · 嶊 pronunciation · 嶊 variants · 嶊崣 · 嶊嶉 · 𡽕
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 5D8A, then AltX to get 嶊.
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-5d8a”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 5d8a, then Enter or Space.
HTML
嶊
CSS
\5D8A
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
嶊
HTML hex
嶊
CSS content
content: "\5D8A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%B6%8A
1
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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