What 輡 means
A rough, jolting ride: a vehicle fighting bad roads. Its earliest located dictionary entry is the Yupian, an early Chinese character dictionary compiled around 543 — its gloss: a cart moving unevenly.
車 'vehicle' supplies the meaning, 冘 the sound; in the compound 輡轲 the stalled cart becomes a life metaphor — ambitions going nowhere.
Literary; it belongs in classical texts and dictionaries, not casual chat.
Sent alone it has no agreed reading — ask for context.
Who writes 輡
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 輡 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.
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How to type or find 輡
- Search it as
- kan · kan3 · kǎn · kanke · 輡轲 · 轗轲 · 坎坷 · 轗
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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Windows
HTML
輡CSS
\8F21Pinyin IME
Type kan3 or kǎn, then pick 輡 from the candidates.
Character map
Use the system character map, or hex input U8F21, if it never appears.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
輡
HTML hex
輡
CSS content
content: "\8F21";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%BC%A1
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.