What 贁 means
贁 is a historical script form of 敗. 敗 covers defeat, failure, damage, and the act of spoiling something. 《說文解字》 records 贁 as an old form of 敗 under the label 籒文敗. Bronze inscriptions attest the wider character lineage; they do not establish when this exact variant took its shape.
Questions people ask
1Why does 贁 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 贁
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8D01, then Alt+X to get 贁.
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-8d01”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8d01, then Enter or Space.
HTML
贁CSS
\8D01Mandarin Pinyin
To type 贁 with Mandarin Pinyin, enter bài and select 贁 if your input method offers the rare form.
Unicode
Enter U+8D01 with a Unicode input tool; the active font determines how the character appears.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
贁
HTML hex
贁
CSS content
content: "\8D01";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%B4%81
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.