What 謘 means
It means slow or halting speech. The Eastern Han Shuowen Jiezi dictionary analyzes 謘 as 言 (“speech”) plus 屖 for sound; the Jiyun also gives “speech not properly formed.”
The Chinese classic Xunzi, written before the Qin dynasty, uses 謘謘 in a ritual-dance passage about the dancers' intent. Some commentators read 謘 as 諄, “sincerely and insistently”; a 2006–07 annotated translation records that reading.
Archaic Chinese dictionary vocabulary.
Questions people ask
1Why does 謘 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 謘
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8B18, then Alt+X to get 謘.
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-8b18”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8b18, then Enter or Space.
HTML
謘CSS
\8B18Chinese Pinyin chí
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Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
謘
HTML hex
謘
CSS content
content: "\8B18";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%AC%98
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.