What 醂 means
It can name the treatment and the persimmon afterward.
Japanese dictionaries also list soaking or rinsing in water and applying black lacquer thinly so it dries without shine. Chinese dictionaries record storing persimmons until ripe and pickled peaches.
A Japanese dictionary dates the earliest cited example of the persimmon-treatment word to 1780; this dates the word’s written record, not 醂’s origin.
Questions people ask
1Why does 醂 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 醂
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9182, then Alt+X to get 醂.
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-9182”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9182, then Enter or Space.
HTML
醂CSS
\9182Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
醂
HTML hex
醂
CSS content
content: "\9182";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%86%82
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.