What 軾 means
It names the rail and the formal gesture made against it.
This ancient Chinese chariot rail let a driver travel standing, gripping it while holding reins or weapons. Late Anyang chariots (from an ancient Chinese site) and Western Zhou dynasty finds provide archaeological evidence for it.
In Classical Chinese, the older literary form of Chinese, 軾 became a verb for the rider's respectful lean.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 軾 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 軾
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8EFE, then Alt+X to get 軾.
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-8efe”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8efe, then Enter or Space.
HTML
軾CSS
\8EFEHow to type 軾
In a Mandarin Pinyin input method, type shi4 and select 軾 from the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
軾
HTML hex
軾
CSS content
content: "\8EFE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%BB%BE
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.