What 袥 means
It names an opening in clothing. The earliest attestation is in the Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary presented in 121 CE. It glosses 袥 with 衸, another clothing term, but does not say when or why 袥 was coined.
Dictionaries also record “stretch a garment” and “open out, expand.” 拓 carries this broader sense, not 袥’s clothing meanings.
Questions people ask
1Why does 袥 appear as a box?
A font without a glyph for 袥 may show a box. The underlying text character remains 袥.
How to type 袥
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 88A5, then Alt+X to get 袥.
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-88a5”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 88a5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
袥CSS
\88A5Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
袥
HTML hex
袥
CSS content
content: "\88A5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%A2%A5
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.