What 酫 means
It is glossed as salted pickled vegetables. The Ming dictionary 字彙, completed in 1615, records 酫 with the gloss 鹹葅.
A Japanese character table also records the reading しほずけ, written in kana, Japan’s syllabic script, with the sense “salt-pickling.”
A reference character whose food gloss and chemistry link need context.
For the modern chemistry term, use 醛; 酫 may point readers to the older pickle gloss.
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1Questions people ask
1Why does 酫 show as a box?
Your active font may not include this glyph. Choose a font whose character set includes 酫; the box signals missing font coverage.
How to type 酫
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 916B, then Alt+X to get 酫.
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-916b”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 916b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
酫CSS
\916BCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
酫
HTML hex
酫
CSS content
content: "\916B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%85%AB
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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.