What 臊 means
The surrounding word tells you which sense is meant.
The Han-era 《說文解字》, an early Chinese dictionary, glosses 臊 as pig-fat smell and analyzes it as 肉 (meat) plus 喿, the sound component. A 2019 Shaanxi heritage account links Qishan 臊子面 to ritual food customs, including a first bowl offered to gods and ancestors before guests ate.
Who writes 臊
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsStrong animal smell; read 臊 as sāo.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 臊 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.
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How to type or find 臊
- Search it as
- 臊 meaning · 臊 pronunciation · sao · saozi · 臊气 · 害臊 · 臊子 · 臊子面
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
臊CSS
\81CACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
臊
HTML hex
臊
CSS content
content: "\81CA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%87%8A
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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.