What 陑 means
It names a place in an old Chinese account. The Shangshu (Book of Documents), a Chinese classic, puts 陑 on Tang’s route before Mingtiao during his campaign against Jie. Dictionaries also gloss related forms as rugged or dangerous ground.
Classical and lexicographic: it reads as a historical place-name entry.
Alone, 陑 cannot distinguish its historical place-name and terrain senses.
Questions people ask
1Why does 陑 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 陑
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9651, then Alt+X to get 陑.
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-9651”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9651, then Enter or Space.
HTML
陑CSS
\9651How to type 陑
Type er in a Mandarin Pinyin IME and select 陑; if it accepts tone numbers, er2 can narrow the candidates.
If 陑 is missing
Some fonts omit 陑; others draw it in different Han styles. Try a font with Chinese character support.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
陑
HTML hex
陑
CSS content
content: "\9651";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%99%91
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.