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蝐

cjk unified ideograph-8750

蝐

蝐 is a rare written form in 蝳蝐, a name for the hawksbill turtle or its shell. Modern Chinese usually writes the name 玳瑁. The related older form 瑇瑁 appears in Lu Jia’s book New Discourses.

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蝳蝐 · 玳瑁 · 瑇瑁 · 瑁 · mèi · mào · hawksbill · tortoiseshell
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What 蝐 means

蝐 belongs inside an older name for the hawksbill turtle. The compound 蝳蝐 names the turtle or its shell; modern Chinese usually writes the name as 玳瑁.

The older spelling 瑇瑁 appears in Lu Jia’s book New Discourses, dated c. 197 BCE, an example of the name in a classical Chinese text. Japanese character references also record an ideographic variation sequence for 蝐: a selector that requests a particular glyph form, displayed only by fonts that support it.

Rare, chiefly dictionary and classical-text usage.

Don't confuse it with

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瑁
CJK Unified Ideograph-7441
瑁 uses the jade component 王; 蝐 uses the insect component 虫. They are related forms, but different characters.

Questions people ask

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Why does 蝐 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 蝐

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8750, then Alt+X to get 蝐.
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-8750”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8750, then Enter or Space.
HTML
蝐
CSS
\8750
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
蝐
HTML hex
蝐
CSS content
content: "\8750";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%9D%90
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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.

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