What 幩 means
It names cloth tied around a horse’s bit.
Shuowen Jiezi says the bit cloth served as an ornament and fanned sweat. It quotes 朱幩鑣鑣 in the Book of Songs, a Chinese poetry collection.
Kangxi gives a second reading: a sack filled with grain.
Classical and specialist: it names historical horse tack.
When 幩 appears in a message, add context; readers may mistake it for a stray glyph.
Who writes 幩
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 幩 show as a box?
Yes. A font may lack it; the text still contains 幩.
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How to type or find 幩
- Search it as
- fén · fen · fèn · bridle · horse tack · 朱幩 · 馬飾
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
幩CSS
\5E69Pinyin IME
Enter fen in a Mandarin Pinyin IME and select 幩.
Cangjie
Enter 中月十廿金 (LBJTC) in a Cangjie IME.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
幩
HTML hex
幩
CSS content
content: "\5E69";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%B9%A9
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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.