What 肔 means
It names a historical punishment.
Classical dictionaries gloss it as “to split open”; a fuller gloss specifies opening the abdomen and removing the intestines.
What is 肔's history?
It connects an ancient punishment with a classical Chinese text.
A Chinese character-history reference describes opening a victim's abdomen for sacrifice as a punishment in Shang-dynasty China.
The Zhuangzi, an early Chinese philosophical text, uses 胣 for Chang Hong's violent death.
Questions people ask
1Why does 肔 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 肔
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8094, then Alt+X to get 肔.
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-8094”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8094, then Enter or Space.
HTML
肔CSS
\8094How to type 肔
In a Mandarin Pinyin input method, type chi and inspect the candidates; a rare variant may not appear.
Cangjie
Enter BPD in a Cangjie input method.
Variant lookup
If 肔 is missing, search for 胣, its documented variant.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
肔
HTML hex
肔
CSS content
content: "\8094";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%82%94
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.