What 豀 means
豀 is a rare variant of 溪 and 谿.
The written trail links 溪 in manuscripts from Chu, an ancient Chinese state, 谿 in Shuowen, an early Chinese dictionary, and 豀 as a regular-script variant.
The classical Chinese text Zhuangzi uses 豀 in 婦姑勃豀 for household quarrelling.
Literary, historical, or source-preserving; unusual in everyday modern Chinese.
In ordinary text, use 溪 unless preserving a source’s spelling.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 豀 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 豀
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8C40, then Alt+X to get 豀.
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-8c40”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8c40, then Enter or Space.
HTML
豀CSS
\8C40Pinyin
Enter xī for 豀; enable rare-character candidates if needed.
Cangjie
Enter CRBVK, then select 豀 from the candidates.
Font
A CJK font with 豀’s glyph resolves a box display.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
豀
HTML hex
豀
CSS content
content: "\8C40";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%B1%80
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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.