What 雗 means
It names a bird, but older sources disagree which bird. A related graph is recorded on a bronze vessel from China’s Western Zhou period. The Eastern Han dictionary Shuowen Jiezi, compiled around 100 CE and submitted in 121 CE, gives 雗’s recognizable entry; it reflects a developing written tradition. 隹 marks “bird,” while 倝 hints at sound. Shuowen glosses it as 山鵲 (“mountain magpie”); Erya, another early Chinese reference, gives “white pheasant,” including a Jiangdong regional name (from eastern China).
Archaic and dictionary-like; unusual in casual chat.
Questions people ask
1Why does 雗 show as a box in my font?
Your font lacks this character’s glyph; another font may display it differently.
How to type 雗
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 96D7, then Alt+X to get 雗.
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-96d7”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 96d7, then Enter or Space.
HTML
雗CSS
\96D7Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
雗
HTML hex
雗
CSS content
content: "\96D7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%9B%97
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.