What 鎝 means
A broad iron rake, an engraving verb, or technetium.
The Chinese dictionary 《正字通》 records 鎝 (鐵鎝) in 1671 as a broad iron rake for turning soil, described as more useful than 耜, another soil-working tool; the later dictionary 《康熙字典》 repeats the note. 金 marks metal; 荅 supplies the sound.
《集韻》 also gives “to engrave,” linked in 《康熙字典》 to 鈒. Taiwan uses 鎝 for technetium-99m; mainland Chinese writing uses 锝 (traditional 鍀).
Questions people ask
1Why does 鎝 look different in fonts?
Yes. As of 2026, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts can give the same character regional designs; the encoded character remains 鎝.
How to type 鎝
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 939D, then Alt+X to get 鎝.
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-939d”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 939d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鎝CSS
\939DCangjie code
If your Chinese input method offers Cangjie, enter CTOR (C=金, T=廿, O=人, R=口); CNS11643 lists this code for 鎝.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鎝
HTML hex
鎝
CSS content
content: "\939D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%8E%9D
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.