What 蜜 means
Honey; context can stretch the meaning to sweetness or flattery.
Read the whole expression: 蜂蜜 means honey, 蜜月 means honeymoon, and 甜言蜜語 means honeyed or flattering words in Chinese.
𧖅 is an older form in the Shuowen tradition, an early Chinese dictionary. A medical text found at Mawangdui also uses 蜜 for honey, connecting the character to food and medicine.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
3Literal honey.
Honeymoon; figuratively, a sweet early period.
Honeyed or flattering words in Chinese.
Questions people ask
1Why does 蜜 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 蜜
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 871C, then Alt+X to get 蜜.
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-871c”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 871c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
蜜CSS
\871CChinese input
In a Mandarin pinyin IME, enter mi and choose 蜜 from the candidates.
Japanese input
Enter みつ in a Japanese IME; convert and select 蜜.
Korean Hanja input
In a Korean IME, enter 밀, use Hanja conversion, and select 蜜.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
蜜
HTML hex
蜜
CSS content
content: "\871C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%9C%9C
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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.