What 鋫 means
It names black metal in dictionary usage. 鋫 is listed as a variant of 鑗. The Eastern Han dictionary Shuowen Jiezi, compiled around 100 CE, glosses 鑗 as “metal” and “to peel or split.” 金 signals metal; 黎 gives the sound. The Taiwan Ministry of Education’s 2024 variant dictionary also records 鑗 for an iron caltrop, a sharp spiked piece scattered on roads to stop attackers.
Rare, dictionary-style Chinese rather than ordinary conversational wording.
Questions people ask
1Why does 鋫 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 鋫
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 92EB, then Alt+X to get 鋫.
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-92eb”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 92eb, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鋫CSS
\92EBHow to type 鋫
If your Chinese pinyin IME lists it, enter li and select 鋫; a blank box means the font lacks the glyph.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鋫
HTML hex
鋫
CSS content
content: "\92EB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%8B%AB
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.