What 磡 means
A rocky shelf or steep bank.
磡 names landforms and appears in fixed Chinese place names.
《廣韻》, a Chinese sound-and-rhyme dictionary from the Song dynasty, records this cliff sense.
Terrain and place-name register, not a casual reaction.
In a fixed name, keep its recorded spelling; a similar character may name a different place.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 磡 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 磡
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 78E1, then Alt+X to get 磡.
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-78e1”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 78e1, then Enter or Space.
HTML
磡CSS
\78E1how to type 磡
Enter kan in a Mandarin Pinyin IME; the tone mark in kàn is usually omitted.
Mandarin Pinyin
Type kan in a Mandarin Pinyin IME and choose 磡.
Cantonese Jyutping
Enter ham3 in a Cantonese Jyutping IME and choose 磡.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
磡
HTML hex
磡
CSS content
content: "\78E1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%A3%A1
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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.