What 溧 means
It preserves the name of a particular watercourse. The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, describes it as a stream flowing from Liyang County in Danyang.
The character pairs 氵, the water component, with 栗 as a sound-bearing part. So 栗’s separate “chestnut” meaning does not carry over to 溧.
A geographic-name character, chiefly encountered in Chinese place names.
栗 gives 溧 its sound; it does not make 溧 mean “chestnut.”
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 溧 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 溧
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 6EA7, then Alt+X to get 溧.
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-6ea7”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 6ea7, then Enter or Space.
HTML
溧CSS
\6EA7Pinyin input
In a Chinese Pinyin input method, type li and choose 溧 from the candidates.
Handwriting or strokes
Use handwriting recognition or stroke input if you know the shape but not the pronunciation.
Cangjie
In a Chinese Cangjie input method, enter 水一田木.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
溧
HTML hex
溧
CSS content
content: "\6EA7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E6%BA%A7
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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.