What 胈 means
胈 means fine leg hair; one gloss says pale thigh flesh.
The Zhuangzi, an ancient Chinese philosophical text, says rulers Yao, Shun and Yu worked for the people until their thighs or shins lost hair.
A dictionary preserves a Qin-era bamboo-slip form, alongside clerical and regular-script forms.
Classical and dictionary-register; a casual use sounds deliberately bookish.
Questions people ask
1Is bá the Japanese reading of 胈?
No. Bá is Mandarin pinyin; Japanese dictionaries give separate readings, which depend on the Japanese word and context.
How to type 胈
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 80C8, then Alt+X to get 胈.
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-80c8”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 80c8, then Enter or Space.
HTML
胈CSS
\80C8How do I type 胈?
In a Chinese pinyin IME, enter ba and inspect candidates; if absent, try handwriting or a character picker.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
胈
HTML hex
胈
CSS content
content: "\80C8";
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URL encoded
%E8%83%88
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
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