What 篥 means
It names part of a reed instrument, not an emotion.
The surviving record names no single inventor. Early histories link 篳篥 to Koguryo music, and Tang-era records place 觱篥 in court ensembles. It was a loud, piercing melody instrument with western-region associations.
Japan took the tradition through continental music: in the Nara period it served 唐楽, then entered gagaku. Japanese use keeps 篥 almost entirely inside 篳篥; 觱篥 and 筚篥 are the related Chinese forms.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsAlone in a message
Rare text character with no emoji cue; ask which word was meant.
Inside 篳篥
Japanese hichiriki in gagaku.
Inside 觱篥 or 筚篥
Chinese-related name for the reed-instrument tradition.
Questions people ask
1Is 篥 an emoji?
No. It is a text character drawn by your font; copy it from the palette above and read the surrounding word.
How to type 篥
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7BE5, then Alt+X to get 篥.
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-7be5”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7be5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
篥CSS
\7BE5Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
篥
HTML hex
篥
CSS content
content: "\7BE5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%AF%A5
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.