What 钰 means
In names, read it as precious treasure. 钰 is a precious-value word, recorded in 玉篇, completed in 543. Dictionaries preserve treasure and hard metal, with the latter historical. It pairs metal 金 with jade 玉, and 鈺 is its traditional form.
Name-oriented and formal; standalone use reads lexically.
For names, do not default to “hard metal.”
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsInside a person's Chinese name
Treasure or precious; do not choose the hard-metal gloss.
Quoted as a dictionary entry
Treasure or hard metal, depending on the cited sense.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 钰 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 钰
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 94B0, then Alt+X to get 钰.
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-94b0”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 94b0, then Enter or Space.
HTML
钰CSS
\94B0Mandarin
Read yù; type yu4 or yù, then choose 钰.
Cantonese and traditional
Read juk6; use a Traditional Chinese layout for 鈺.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
钰
HTML hex
钰
CSS content
content: "\94B0";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%92%B0
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On screen
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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.