What 肴 means
It means prepared meat, fish, or dishes.
Think banquet food in Chinese and bar snacks in Japanese 肴. Chinese uses it in dish words for a spread; Japanese reads it さかな, food that goes with drinks, and by extension good company or entertainment.
Chinese dish-and-banquet wording; Japanese drinking-table wording.
In Japanese, do not assume 肴 means fish.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsChinese compound 菜肴
Prepared dishes or cooked food.
Reading さかな with drinks
Food served with alcohol; fish is not required.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1Fine wine and good food.
Questions people ask
1Is 肴 an emoji?
No. It is a text character for food, so surrounding words set the reading.
How to type 肴
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 80B4, then Alt+X to get 肴.
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-80b4”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 80b4, then Enter or Space.
HTML
肴CSS
\80B4Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
肴
HTML hex
肴
CSS content
content: "\80B4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%82%B4
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.