What 庨 means
Its earliest cited appearance is in a Han-era poem.
Ma Rong’s 《长笛赋》 is a long, ornate poem about the flute. Its phrase 庨窌 describes hollows among cliffs and valleys: the character describes space rather than naming a particular object.
Later dictionaries use 庨 for buildings that are high and deep; 庨豁 extends that sense to open spaces in architecture and landscapes.
Literary and archaic; alone, 庨 needs a gloss or a surrounding compound.
Who writes 庨
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Combination ideas
2Deep, hollow spaces.
High, deep, open spaces.
Questions people ask
1Why does 庨 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 庨
- Search it as
- 庨 · xiao · xiāo · 庨豁 · 庨窌 · 𨴹
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
庨CSS
\5EA8Pinyin
Enter xiāo in a Chinese Pinyin input method, then select 庨.
Cangjie
Enter IJKD.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
庨
HTML hex
庨
CSS content
content: "\5EA8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%BA%A8
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.