What 錳 means
In Chinese chemistry, 錳 labels the element Mn.
In 1868, one chemistry text used 蒙石 for manganese. In 1871, Chinese scientist Xu Shou and British translator John Fryer introduced one-character element names pairing 金, the metal marker, with a sound component; 錳 pairs 金 with 孟. Education standards retained the system by 1908.
鋰, 鎂, and 鋁 follow the same metal-plus-sound pattern.
Technical; used in Chinese chemistry and materials writing.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
3manganese steel
potassium permanganate
manganese dioxide
Questions people ask
1Why does 錳 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 錳
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9333, then Alt+X to get 錳.
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-9333”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9333, then Enter or Space.
HTML
錳CSS
\9333How to type 錳
With Chinese Pinyin input, type meng and choose traditional 錳.
Cangjie
Cangjie input: enter 金弓木廿.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
錳
HTML hex
錳
CSS content
content: "\9333";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%8C%B3
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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.