What 緪 means
It means a large rope or to tighten a string.
In 楚辭, the song 《九歌·東君》, attributed to the Warring States period, says “緪瑟兮交鼓”: tighten a Chinese zither’s strings as drums sound in a sun-god rite. 《方言》 records “finish” for the Qin and Jin regions.
Dictionaries list 絚 and 縆 as variants; 絙 shares the large-rope sense but has other meanings.
Classical and lexicographic; it points to a text or dictionary.
Alone in chat, it leaves the old sense unclear; ask for context.
Worth knowing
- 《太平御覽》 quotes 《風俗通義》: in a creation myth, goddess Nuwa (女媧) uses a mud-soaked rope to make people; 緪 means a large rope.
Questions people ask
1Why does 緪 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 緪
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7DEA, then Alt+X to get 緪.
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-7dea”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7dea, then Enter or Space.
HTML
緪CSS
\7DEACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
緪
HTML hex
緪
CSS content
content: "\7DEA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%B7%AA
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.