What 秙 means
It describes grain that fails to fill out.
One reading of a Qin-era granary rule contrasts 秙稻, rice with unfilled grains, with 粲稻, fine rice with full kernels, and 糯稻, sticky rice. Here 秙 marks a crop condition.
Its recorded sense is agricultural: grain that fails to fill.
Questions people ask
1Why does 秙 show as a box?
It can. If the recipient’s font does not support 秙, it may appear as a box.
How to type 秙
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 79D9, then Alt+X to get 秙.
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-79d9”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 79d9, then Enter or Space.
HTML
秙CSS
\79D9Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
秙
HTML hex
秙
CSS content
content: "\79D9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%A7%99
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.