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犿

cjk unified ideograph-72bf

犿

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犿 is a variant of 獾 (“badger”) and appears in 連犿, a classical phrase for winding prose. The phrase appears in the 天下 chapter of Zhuangzi, an ancient Chinese philosophical work; the chapter’s date is disputed.

Text symbol

What 犿 means

Two records: a variant of 獾 and part of 連犿.

連犿 describes supple, winding prose in Zhuangzi’s 天下 chapter. Its disputed date ranges from the late Warring States to early Han.

Alone, 犿 is a dictionary-listed variant of 獾, the character for badger.

A classical phrase and a dictionary variant; context separates the uses.

Alone, 犿 points to the badger variant; in 連犿, it describes prose.

Who writes 犿

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Questions people ask

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Why does 犿 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 or find 犿

Search it as
連犿 · 连犿 · 獾 · fan · huan
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 72BF, then AltX to get 犿.
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-72bf”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 72bf, then Enter or Space.
HTML
犿
CSS
\72BF
How to type 犿
On a Mandarin Pinyin keyboard, try fan or huan as input spellings; candidate lists for this rare character vary.
If 犿 appears as a box
The current font lacks 犿; a font with coverage will display it.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
犿
HTML hex
犿
CSS content
content: "\72BF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%8A%BF
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.

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