What 闒 means
An old character for an upper-story door.
An early record appears in Shuowen Jiezi, a Chinese character dictionary, where 闒 names a built feature; later dictionaries also use it for a room or structure above a gate.
In the old compound 闒茸, it forms part of a contemptuous description of a lowly or inept person. 闒 is the traditional Chinese form; 阘 is used in simplified Chinese.
Archaic and literary; by itself, 闒 suits historical or specialist writing.
闒茸 is contemptuous; do not use it as a neutral label for someone.
Combination ideas
1A contemptuous label for someone lowly or inept.
Questions people ask
1Why does 闒 look different in different fonts?
It is the same character; each font draws its strokes, so small visual details can vary.
How to type 闒
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 95D2, then Alt+X to get 闒.
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-95d2”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 95d2, then Enter or Space.
HTML
闒CSS
\95D2Mandarin Pinyin
Type ta in a Chinese Pinyin input method and select 闒 if it appears among the candidates; its Mandarin reading is tà.
Simplified Chinese
Write 阘 in simplified Chinese; it is the simplified form of 闒.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
闒
HTML hex
闒
CSS content
content: "\95D2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%97%92
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.