What 睒 means
A quick look, peek, or glimmer.
The glance sense is literary in Mandarin; Teochew, a Chinese variety, also uses it in everyday speech for glancing or peeking.
Where does 睒 come from?
The Shuowen Jiezi, an early character dictionary, records 睒 as brief seeing.
The entry assigns 目 (“eye”) the meaning and 炎 the sound. Later texts also use 睒 for a brief glimmer, including starlight or electric light.
Literary for the glance sense in Mandarin; a spoken glance-or-peek word in Teochew.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 睒 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 睒
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7752, then Alt+X to get 睒.
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-7752”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7752, then Enter or Space.
HTML
睒CSS
\7752Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
睒
HTML hex
睒
CSS content
content: "\7752";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%9D%92
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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.