What 賺 means
賺 most often means earn or profit in Mandarin.
The Shuowen’s New Appendix, a supplement to an early dictionary, glosses an earlier form as buying and says 廉 guides its pronunciation.
Tang poetry, Song sources, and Ming writing record deception, a song form, and profit senses.
Can 賺 mean deceive?
Yes; Mandarin has a separate deception reading.
賺錢 means earn money; 賺人 means trick someone.
Neutral in profit compounds; unclear alone.
Use 賺錢 for profit; alone, it can suggest deception.
Combination ideas
2Earn money; clear profit sense.
Deceive someone.
Questions people ask
1Why does 賺 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 賺
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8CFA, then Alt+X to get 賺.
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-8cfa”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8cfa, then Enter or Space.
HTML
賺CSS
\8CFAPinyin input
On Mandarin Pinyin input (Latin-letter Chinese typing), enter zhuan for profit or zuan for deception; zh versus z distinguishes them. Then select 賺.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
賺
HTML hex
賺
CSS content
content: "\8CFA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%B3%BA
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.