What 靱 means
It describes strength that bends without breaking.
Japanese compounds give examples: 靱帯 is a ligament, 靱性 is material toughness, and 強靱 means resilient strength.
Related Chinese 韌 pairs a leather component with one that hints at pronunciation.
Fonts vary slightly. 靭 is a related Japanese variant with a separate code, so exact-text searches distinguish it.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
3ligament
material toughness
strong and resilient
Questions people ask
1Why does 靱 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 靱
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9771, then Alt+X to get 靱.
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-9771”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9771, then Enter or Space.
HTML
靱CSS
\9771Japanese IME
How to type 靱: enter じんたい or きょうじん in a Japanese IME, then select the needed candidate.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
靱
HTML hex
靱
CSS content
content: "\9771";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%9D%B1
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.