What 紎 means
A rare character for silk cloth, including black silk.
A Chinese character dictionary records two senses: silk of varied colors, and the black-silk meaning it shares with 緇. For 緇, the black-cloth sense also came to refer to Buddhist robes and monks because those robes were black.
The older related form 䊷 appears in Warring States Chu bamboo slips. This exact glyph is recorded in 龍龕手鑑, a Chinese dictionary dated 997.
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1Questions people ask
1Why does 紎 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 紎
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7D0E, then Alt+X to get 紎.
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-7d0e”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7d0e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
紎CSS
\7D0EHow to type 紎
In a Chinese Pinyin input method, type `zi` and choose 紎, or enter Cangjie code `VFIK`. Japanese input may need character lookup; 紎 has no JIS X 0213 mapping.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
紎
HTML hex
紎
CSS content
content: "\7D0E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%B4%8E
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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.