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盓

cjk unified ideograph-76d3

CJK Unified Ideograph-76D3

盓 means a whirlpool-like swirl of water, especially in the word 盘盓. Its home is classical Chinese prose, not casual chat. Copy it from the palette above and treat it as a citation, not a reaction.

Text symbol
Search it as
盘盓 · yu · whirlpool · water swirl · 旋流 · 水旋流 · yū
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 盓 means

It describes water curling into a whirlpool.

Mu Hua uses 盘盓 in his 海赋, written around 290 and preserved in 文选, where 盘盓激而成窟 pictures a spinning current hollowing its bed. That literary whirlpool sense is the character's established use.

Reference works connect 盓 with variant 𥁡 and the 于 sound series, while keeping it separate from 污, 洿, and vessel-word 盂. As of 2026-09-14, no modern everyday or slang use for 盓 is established.

Literary and lexical; it signals source-text or character-study context.

Do not send it as a reaction; it names a rare water term.

Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does 盓 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 盓

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 76D3, then Alt+X to get 盓.
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-76d3”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 76d3, then Enter or Space.
HTML
盓
CSS
\76D3
Cangjie
Use 水木月廿 in an IME that supports Cangjie; otherwise use the palette.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
盓
HTML hex
盓
CSS content
content: "\76D3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%9B%93
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On screen
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Code points
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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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