What 鈦 means
It names titanium; 钛 is its simplified form.
Chinese chemical naming expanded in the late Qing, China's last imperial dynasty. A 1932 Chinese chemistry nomenclature list records 鈦 for titanium; it dates official use, not the character's creation.
A technical term for chemistry, engineering, and materials.
Use 鈦 for titanium; 釱 names an old foot fetter.
Don't confuse it with
2Combination ideas
1Titanium alloy; an engineering material term.
Questions people ask
1Why does 鈦 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 鈦
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9226, then Alt+X to get 鈦.
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-9226”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9226, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鈦CSS
\9226Pinyin / Cangjie
In Chinese Pinyin, type tai and select 鈦; Cangjie uses 金大戈 (CKI).
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鈦
HTML hex
鈦
CSS content
content: "\9226";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%88%A6
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.