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珯

cjk unified ideograph-73ef

Han character 珯

9712/20992

As of 2026, 珯 has no settled everyday gloss; its source determines the reading. Documented local uses include a Taiwanese personal name and a Guangdong place name. In a Buddhist mantra, one occurrence is treated as a damaged or miscopied 瑳. Sent alone, it needs context rather than a guessed translation.

Text symbol

What 珯 means

As of 2026, it has no settled everyday gloss; read it through its source.

As of 2026, documented local uses include a Taiwanese personal name and a Guangdong place name. Those records show where the graph is used, not a definition that travels everywhere.

Why does 珯 appear in a Buddhist text?

It appears in a mantra in a Buddhist ritual manual.

The manual, Suxidi jieluo gongyang fa, includes 珯 in a mantra, a set phrase recited during a ritual. A study comparing editions identifies this occurrence as 瑳 with part of its form lost or miscopied.

That is a textual transmission error, not a rule for replacing 珯 in other contexts.

Can I send 珯 by itself?

Only if the recipient already knows the reference.

In a chat, a lone 珯 does not show whether it is a quotation, a name, or a typo. Ask which source or name the sender meant before translating it.

Keep it as written when it belongs to a name or quotation; do not silently normalize it to 瑳.

Source-bound and local-name register; opaque in ordinary conversation.

Do not assign it one fixed gloss without its source.

Who writes 珯

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What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

Compare this occurrence with 瑳: the transmitted form is analyzed as damaged or miscopied.

Questions people ask

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Why does 珯 look blank on my phone?

As of 2026, if your phone's active font lacks 珯, it may show a blank box or fallback shape. The underlying text can still be the same character.

How to type or find 珯

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Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 73EF, then AltX to get 珯.
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-73ef”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 73ef, then Enter or Space.
HTML
珯
CSS
\73EF
Mandarin Pinyin
Enter lǎo (lao3) in a Mandarin Pinyin input method. Whether it offers 珯 depends on its character list.
Cangjie
Enter MGJKP in a Cangjie input method.
Wubi
Enter GFTX in a Wubi input method.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
珯
HTML hex
珯
CSS content
content: "\73EF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%8F%AF
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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.

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