What 鎽 means
鎽 carries 鋒’s senses, including a vanguard and figurative sharpness.
Historical references from the Tang and Five Dynasties name 通典 and 祖堂集.
Uncommon and exact: a Hong Kong school record for 2017–2018 spells 王澤鎽.
Replacing it with 峰 changes the meaning to “mountain peak.”
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 鎽 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 鎽
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 93BD, then Alt+X to get 鎽.
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-93bd”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 93bd, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鎽CSS
\93BDHTML/XML or JSON/JavaScript
HTML/XML: `鎽`; JSON/JavaScript: `\u93BD`. For a missing glyph, try a CJK font. CNS11643 lists it in default fonts for Windows 10 and later and offers a font package.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鎽
HTML hex
鎽
CSS content
content: "\93BD";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%8E%BD
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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.