What 鄢 means
It names an ancient state and a surname; Mandarin reads it yān.
A Spring and Autumn period account, from early Chinese history, uses 鄢 in 鄭伯克段于鄢 for the ancient state's name. Mandarin yān sounds roughly like “yen,” held at a high, level pitch.
After Zheng conquered the state, the place was renamed 鄢陵. 鄢 is also a Chinese surname.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIn a person's name
鄢 is the surname.
In the place-name 鄢陵
It identifies the historical place.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 鄢 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 鄢
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9122, then Alt+X to get 鄢.
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-9122”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9122, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鄢CSS
\9122Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鄢
HTML hex
鄢
CSS content
content: "\9122";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%84%A2
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.