What 鑣 means
鑣 names the horse bit in a bridle.
The Han-era Chinese character dictionary 說文解字 glosses 鑣 as 馬銜 (“horse bit”). Studies of ancient East Asian horse gear discuss it alongside 轡 (“reins”) and distinguish Han-style bits from those associated with the Xiongnu people across the 3rd century BCE–3rd century CE.
揚鑣 means urging a horse forward; 分道揚鑣 turns that image into parting ways.
Literal horse-tack use is specialized.
For a horse bit, use 鑣; 鏢 means dart.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1Part ways after aims or directions diverge.
Questions people ask
1Why does 鑣 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 鑣
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9463, then Alt+X to get 鑣.
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-9463”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9463, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鑣CSS
\9463Cangjie (Chinese input method)
Its code is 金戈心火.
Full form
镳 is the simplified counterpart.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鑣
HTML hex
鑣
CSS content
content: "\9463";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%91%A3
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.