What 脡 means
It names dried meat shaped into a long strip. The Gongyang Commentary, which explains the ancient Chinese history book Spring and Autumn Annals, describes officials bringing an exiled duke 四脡脯—four strips as food and a formal gift.
脡祭 means fish offered in sacrifice; 脡直 describes straightness or stiffness.
Classical and lexicographic; archaic in everyday prose.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
2脡祭 means fish offered in a classical sacrifice.
脡直 means straight or stiff in appearance.
Questions people ask
1Why does 脡 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 脡
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8121, then Alt+X to get 脡.
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-8121”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8121, then Enter or Space.
HTML
脡CSS
\8121How to type 脡
On a Chinese Pinyin keyboard, enter tǐng and select 脡.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
脡
HTML hex
脡
CSS content
content: "\8121";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%84%A1
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.