What 羙 means
It is a written variant of 美, meaning “beautiful” or “good.”
The Eastern Han Hengfang Stele, a stone monument, records 羙 in 168 CE. A 2024 Taiwan Ministry of Education dictionary explains it as an evolved spelling: scribes mistook the lower 大 in 美 for 火.
It developed through writing rather than being invented as a separate sign.
Historical and uncommon in ordinary writing.
Questions people ask
1Why does 羙 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 羙
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7F99, then Alt+X to get 羙.
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-7f99”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7f99, then Enter or Space.
HTML
羙CSS
\7F99Japanese input
As of 2026-09-08, JIS X 0213 has no mapping for 羙. Japanese input methods based on that set may not offer it; Unicode entry steps vary by device.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
羙
HTML hex
羙
CSS content
content: "\7F99";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%BE%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.