What 皴 means
It links cracked skin with marks that model rocky terrain.
An old gloss describes finely raised skin; a record from the Liang dynasty mentions hands cracked by cold. In 皴裂, it still means cracked skin.
In Chinese ink landscapes, 皴 developed into a texture technique through the Tang–Five Dynasties transition. Guo Xi wrote of it in the Northern Song; Ming-era critics used 皴法.
Japanese usage preserves the skin, crack, and painting senses. Korean art terminology names the landscape-texturing technique 준법.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIn 皴裂
Cracked or chapped skin.
In a 皴法 caption
Brushwork that textures mountain and rock surfaces.
Questions people ask
1Is 皴 an emoji?
No. It is text shaped by the font, not emoji artwork.
How to type 皴
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 76B4, then Alt+X to get 皴.
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-76b4”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 76b4, then Enter or Space.
HTML
皴CSS
\76B4Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
皴
HTML hex
皴
CSS content
content: "\76B4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%9A%B4
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.