What 貀 means
A historical Chinese name for a beast said to have no forelegs.
The Erya (《爾雅》), an early Chinese dictionary, gives the earliest known gloss: “貀，无前足” (“貀 has no forelegs”). Shuowen (《說文解字》) agrees and analyzes 貀 as 豸, an animal-related component, plus 出, its sound component. Later commentaries compare the beast to a dog, a leopard-marked creature, a black tiger, a raccoon-like animal from Korea, or a sea creature.
Questions people ask
1Why does 貀 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 貀
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8C80, then Alt+X to get 貀.
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-8c80”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8c80, then Enter or Space.
HTML
貀CSS
\8C80Chinese input
Use a Chinese input method's character lookup; handwriting or radical search can help if ordinary candidates omit it. Display is font-dependent: if it appears as a box, the active font may not include 貀.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
貀
HTML hex
貀
CSS content
content: "\8C80";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%B2%80
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.