What 毳 means
It means dense, fine animal hair. Early listed forms come from Western Zhou bronze inscriptions, with later Chu manuscript and Eastern Han slip forms. Three 毛 parts stacked together spell it out: hair upon hair.
Read it as cui (cuì). You rarely meet it alone; it lives in words such as 毳毛 for peach-fuzz body hair, plus older 毳衣 for wool or fur clothing and 毳幕 for a felt dwelling.
As of 2026-09-12, pair it with another character or gloss it; alone it looks like a lookup request.
Alone, readers reach for a dictionary, not a mood.
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Who writes 毳
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Combination ideas
3Fine body hair, including peach fuzz.
Wool or fur clothing in older texts.
Felt tent, a nomadic felt dwelling.
Questions people ask
1Why does 毳 look different in different fonts?
It can. 毳 is drawn by your font, so spacing of the three 毛 parts shifts between fonts.
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How to type or find 毳
- Search it as
- cui · 毳毛 · 毳衣
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
毳CSS
\6BF3Chinese input
Type cui and pick cuì; Wubi TFNN and Cangjie HUHUU also produce it.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
毳
HTML hex
毳
CSS content
content: "\6BF3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E6%AF%B3
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.