What 鋞 means
It names a metal vessel for warming or carrying food and drink. A Western Han bronze dated to 28 BCE bears 鋞 in the vessel’s name. The early Chinese character dictionary Shuowen Jiezi describes it as a round, upright vessel.
Other dictionary senses are a long bell and a lock bar or rod. Food or wine context points to the vessel, bell wording to the bell, and hardware wording to the bar.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA food or wine passage
Metal vessel for warming or carrying food and drink.
Bell wording
Long bell.
Hardware wording
Lock bar or rod.
Questions people ask
1Why does 鋞 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 鋞
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 92DE, then Alt+X to get 鋞.
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-92de”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 92de, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鋞CSS
\92DECangjie
To type 鋞 with Cangjie, use CMVM in the Chinese input method.
Wubi
For Chinese Wubi input, enter QGVA for 鋞.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鋞
HTML hex
鋞
CSS content
content: "\92DE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%8B%9E
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.