What 闩 means
A sliding door bar, or fastening the door with one.
The bar slides across a closed door. Mandarin uses 门闩 for the bar and 闩门 for fastening it.
Cantonese uses 閂門 for closing a door or shop; Hakka uses it to secure a door. In 1175, a Chinese account from the Southern Song, a ruling dynasty, records 閂 as a local written form for a horizontal door closure.
Combination ideas
3the door bar
fasten the door
Cantonese 閂門: close a door or shop; in Hakka, secure a door
Questions people ask
1Why does 闩 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 闩
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 95E9, then Alt+X to get 闩.
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-95e9”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 95e9, then Enter or Space.
HTML
闩CSS
\95E9Mandarin Pinyin
To type 闩 with Mandarin Pinyin, enter `shuan` and choose it if it appears among the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
闩
HTML hex
闩
CSS content
content: "\95E9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%97%A9
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.