What 賬 means
賬 means a financial record or debt. It appears in 賬本 (account book), 賬單 (bill), and 欠賬 (debt). It is a money-focused variant of 帳.
An early Chinese dictionary, Shuowen Jiezi, does not record 賬. Financial examples appear in the historical works Old History of the Five Dynasties and History of the Qing. Regional fonts for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean can draw the same character differently without changing its identity.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1Check the accounts.
Questions people ask
1Why does 賬 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 賬
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8CEC, then Alt+X to get 賬.
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-8cec”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8cec, then Enter or Space.
HTML
賬CSS
\8CECPinyin / Zhuyin
How do I type 賬? In a Traditional Chinese Pinyin IME, type `zhang`; with Zhuyin, enter `ㄓㄤˋ`, then select 賬.
Cangjie
Enter `BCSMV` and select 賬.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
賬
HTML hex
賬
CSS content
content: "\8CEC";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%B3%AC
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.