What 蚎 means
It names a small crab in 蟛蚎. Chinese dictionaries record 蚏 as a variant in 玉篇, 廣韻, and 集韻.
An old Chinese text, 中華古今注, describes 蟛蚎 as a crab that lives in coastal mud and feeds on soil; a larger-clawed kind is called 擁劍 or 執火. Later crab texts use the term in food and seasonal descriptions. No separate modern chat meaning is recorded as of 2026.
Historical and specialist; it belongs in discussion of the old crab term or classical Chinese writing.
Alone, 蚎 is opaque; name the crab term or explain it.
Questions people ask
1Is 蚎 an emoji?
No. It is a font-rendered Chinese character; a box or unfamiliar shape means the font lacks coverage or draws it differently.
How to type 蚎
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 868E, then Alt+X to get 蚎.
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-868e”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 868e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
蚎CSS
\868EHow to type 蚎
In a Chinese Pinyin input method, type yue and check the candidates; rare-character coverage varies by dictionary.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
蚎
HTML hex
蚎
CSS content
content: "\868E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%9A%8E
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.