What 溦 means
It means drizzle: very light rain.
《說文解字》, a Chinese dictionary compiled during the Eastern Han dynasty around 121 CE, defines 溦 as small rain. 水 signals water; 微 hints at its sound.
Why is 溦 rare in modern writing?
It is marked; 微 is the usual modern form for drizzle.
A Qing-era note by Duan Yucai records this preference.
《爾雅》, an early Chinese glossary, records a separate valley-watercourse reading linked to 湄, “riverbank.”
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 溦 look different in different fonts?
It can. Font coverage determines whether 溦 appears; typefaces can draw its strokes differently.
How to type 溦
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 6EA6, then Alt+X to get 溦.
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-6ea6”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 6ea6, then Enter or Space.
HTML
溦CSS
\6EA6How to type 溦
On a Mandarin Pinyin keyboard, enter wei (wēi) and choose 溦 from candidates; 微 shares its reading.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
溦
HTML hex
溦
CSS content
content: "\6EA6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E6%BA%A6
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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.