What 釉 means
It means the glaze coating on pottery or porcelain.
That use predates the graph: Chinese ash-glazed ware appears by the Shang dynasty. As of 2026, no source checked establishes one inventor or a securely dated first appearance for 釉; early dictionaries connect it with 油.
釉藥 and Japanese 釉薬 name the glaze material; 上釉 names glazing it. Its shape follows your font, not emoji artwork.
Who writes 釉
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 釉 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.
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How to type or find 釉
- Search it as
- ceramic · pottery · yòu · 釉藥 · 釉薬
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
釉CSS
\91C9Chinese IME
Type yòu or you4, then select 釉.
Japanese IME
Type ゆう or うわぐすり, then select 釉.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
釉
HTML hex
釉
CSS content
content: "\91C9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%87%89
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.