What 疺 means
Bronze inscriptions preserve an early form of 乏. Its top stroke slants where 正 (“straight”) has a horizontal top stroke; one scholarly interpretation reads the contrast as “not straight.” That history belongs to 乏 itself.
Classical Chinese sources also use 乏 for lack and fatigue, and for a screen that shielded people near an archery target from arrows. A Song dynasty rhyme dictionary, 集韻, groups entries by sound and records 疺 separately with its readings.
Questions people ask
1Why does 疺 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 疺
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 75BA, then Alt+X to get 疺.
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-75ba”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 75ba, then Enter or Space.
HTML
疺CSS
\75BACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
疺
HTML hex
疺
CSS content
content: "\75BA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%96%BA
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.