What 轞 means
An enclosed prisoner cart. In the Han-era Records of the Grand Historian (史記), 轞車 names a covered cart used to carry prisoners to the capital. 轞 is absent from the text of 說文解字, an early Chinese character dictionary.
Why can 轞 evoke the sound of carts?
轞轞 evokes carts rolling. In a Tang-era hunting poem, Li Bai uses the repeated form for war chariots.
Historical and literary.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readings轞車
A covered prisoner cart.
轞轞
The rumble of rolling carts.
Questions people ask
1Why does 轞 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 轞
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8F5E, then Alt+X to get 轞.
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-8f5e”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8f5e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
轞CSS
\8F5EMandarin Pinyin input
How to type 轞: use a Chinese keyboard with Mandarin Pinyin input, enter jian, then select the candidate 轞 (jiàn).
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
轞
HTML hex
轞
CSS content
content: "\8F5E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%BD%9E
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.