What 鄽 means
鄽 is a variant of 廛 for a dwelling or market quarter.
The Han-era Chinese character dictionary Shuowen Jiezi defines 廛 as a dwelling allotted to a household. The earliest known record of 鄽 is in the Liang-era dictionary Yupian, where it is glossed “market.” 鄽居 means a residential quarter; a Tang-era essay uses 鄽肆 in a discussion of trade.
Its literary, lexicographic register suits historical or specialist Chinese writing.
Questions people ask
1Why does 鄽 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 鄽
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 913D, then Alt+X to get 鄽.
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-913d”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 913d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鄽CSS
\913DCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鄽
HTML hex
鄽
CSS content
content: "\913D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%84%BD
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.