What 霘 means
It appears in 霟霘, a literary phrase for rushing waves.
五音集韻 is a Jin-dynasty Chinese dictionary arranged by rhyme. Its preface is dated 1212, and its entry for 霘 quotes the poet Xu Yin’s 黃河賦, a literary work about the Yellow River.
Literary, with a meaning tied to a set phrase.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readings霘 in 霟霘
A literary phrase for urgent, turbulent waves.
霘 arrives alone in a chat
Ask what phrase or passage it refers to; the character alone gives too little to decode confidently.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1A literary phrase for rushing, turbulent waves.
Questions people ask
1Why does 霘 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 霘
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9718, then Alt+X to get 霘.
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-9718”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9718, then Enter or Space.
HTML
霘CSS
\9718Pinyin for 霘
Enter dòng in a Mandarin Pinyin input method and select 霘 if it appears.
Cangjie
If your keyboard offers Cangjie, enter MBEBR.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
霘
HTML hex
霘
CSS content
content: "\9718";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%9C%98
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.