What 釪 means
It has no single everyday meaning.
A bronze inscription uses 釪鼎 for a ding, a large ancient vessel. As of 2024, 《說文解字》, an early Chinese character dictionary, has no standalone entry for 釪.
A disputed reading identifies one graph in Tsinghua University’s bamboo-strip manuscripts—texts written on narrow strips—as 釪.
Historical and specialist; the surrounding word supplies the sense.
A lone 釪 does not tell you the sender’s mood.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIn 錞釪
A bell-like instrument played with drums.
In 鉢釪
A Buddhist alms bowl.
Questions people ask
1Why does 釪 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 釪
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 91EA, then Alt+X to get 釪.
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-91ea”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 91ea, then Enter or Space.
HTML
釪CSS
\91EACangjie
With a Chinese Cangjie input method active, enter CMD (金一木), then press Space.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
釪
HTML hex
釪
CSS content
content: "\91EA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%87%AA
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.