What 羸 means
Thin, frail, or worn out.
羸兵 means weakened troops; older uses also describe frail people and shabby objects. 羸其角 uses 羸 for “entangle,” a classical loan linked to 纍 and 虆. Qin bamboo writing slips attest an early form from the late Warring States. The Han-era dictionary Shuowen assigns 羊 the meaning role and 𣎆 the sound.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Why does 羸 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 羸
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7FB8, then Alt+X to get 羸.
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-7fb8”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7fb8, then Enter or Space.
HTML
羸CSS
\7FB8How to type 羸
Enter lei in Mandarin Pinyin, then select 羸.
Cangjie
Enter YNTQ in the Cangjie input method.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
羸
HTML hex
羸
CSS content
content: "\7FB8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%BE%B8
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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.