What 誗 means
Its old gloss joins benefit with polished expression.
The old gloss 言利美也 describes speech as useful and beautifully put. 玉篇 (Yupian), a Chinese dictionary compiled around 543, records this sense; later dictionaries that group characters by sound list it too. A Tang-period history also records 誗 in a diviner’s name.
Literary and dictionary-like; it would sound conspicuously formal in everyday conversation.
Questions people ask
1Why does 誗 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 誗
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8A97, then Alt+X to get 誗.
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-8a97”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8a97, then Enter or Space.
HTML
誗CSS
\8A97Pinyin input
Enter chan in a Mandarin Pinyin input method and choose 誗; typing omits the tone mark in chán.
Shape-based input
Wubi YTJH; Cangjie YRHDN. Enable the matching input method first.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
誗
HTML hex
誗
CSS content
content: "\8A97";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%AA%97
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.