What 裉 means
No single inventor is documented. As of 2024, the Taiwan Ministry's variant dictionary says 說文 does not record 裉 and cites a chapter 49 passage of Dream of the Red Chamber using 窄裉.
The 2024 dictionary's compounds show why the word exists: name the armhole join so a maker can close it or measure from shoulder to armpit. The sources found do not establish a first occurrence.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
32021 dictionary: shoulder-to-armpit tailoring measurement.
2021 dictionary: sew the underarm seam closed.
2017 dialect table: Harbin phrase for a key point.
Questions people ask
1Why does 裉 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 裉
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 88C9, then Alt+X to get 裉.
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-88c9”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 88c9, then Enter or Space.
HTML
裉CSS
\88C9Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
裉
HTML hex
裉
CSS content
content: "\88C9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%A3%89
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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.