What 鑎 means
It means a box or chest. The older character 匱 is defined as a box in Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary. Jiyun, another historical Chinese dictionary, records 鑎 as a variant of 匱, with 金, the metal sign, on its left.
This link is specific to 匱’s guì reading for a box. 匱 also has a separate kuì reading meaning “shortage”; 鑎 does not take that sense in the variant entry.
Questions people ask
1Does 鑎 mean shortage?
No. The variant entry links 鑎 to 匱’s box or chest meaning; “shortage” is a separate sense of 匱.
How to type 鑎
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 944E, then Alt+X to get 鑎.
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-944e”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 944e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鑎CSS
\944ECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鑎
HTML hex
鑎
CSS content
content: "\944E";
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URL encoded
%E9%91%8E
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On screen
1
Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
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