What 詨 means
It means a call or shout. A bronze inscription from the mid-Western Zhou period preserves its earliest recorded form; later forms appear in texts from the ancient state of Chu on bamboo or silk and in small-seal, clerical, and regular scripts.
言 marks speech; 交 hints at sound. The Classic of Mountains and Seas, an old book of legendary creatures, uses 其鳴自詨 for an animal's cry; dictionaries gloss 詨 there with 訆. Wu is a group of Chinese varieties.
Questions people ask
1Why does 詨 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 詨
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8A68, then Alt+X to get 詨.
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-8a68”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8a68, then Enter or Space.
HTML
詨CSS
\8A68How to type 詨
Enter jiao or xiao in Chinese Pinyin input; select 詨 or try handwriting, radical/stroke, or Unicode-hex input.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
詨
HTML hex
詨
CSS content
content: "\8A68";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%A9%A8
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.