What 簙 means
簙 is the written name of Liubo.
Liubo was popular by the Spring and Autumn–Warring States transition in China. The Eastern Han dictionary Shuowen Jiezi defines 簙 as a game with six sticks and twelve pieces.
Players threw sticks to move pieces on a marked board. The six-stick form had disappeared by the late fifth century.
Historical name for Liubo.
Keep 簙 distinct from everyday 博.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 簙 show as a box?
A box means the active font or app lacks a glyph for 簙.
How to type 簙
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7C19, then Alt+X to get 簙.
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-7c19”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7c19, then Enter or Space.
HTML
簙CSS
\7C19Mandarin Pinyin
Type bó (roughly “bo” with a rising tone) in a Chinese Pinyin IME; select 簙 if offered.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
簙
HTML hex
簙
CSS content
content: "\7C19";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%B0%99
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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.