What 鞖 means
It names a fitting that secures or decorates a saddle. Chinese dictionaries use it for a hanging saddle ornament; in Japanese, しおで is the cord that fastens the strap across a horse’s chest and the rear saddle strap to rings.
In Shuowen, an early Chinese character dictionary, 䪎 is listed as a variant form of 鞖. Japanese accounts describe 5th–6th-century saddle fittings as metal, with later examples made from leather or braid. A 14th-century passage in Genpei Seisuiki, a Japanese war tale, uses the term.
Questions people ask
1Why does 鞖 show as a box?
It can: as of 2026, whether 鞖 displays depends on font coverage. The Japanese term can also be written in kana as しおで or シオデ.
How to type 鞖
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9796, then Alt+X to get 鞖.
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-9796”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9796, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鞖CSS
\9796How to type 鞖
Mandarin pinyin input: enter sui (suī with the tone mark). Japanese input: try sai or しおで. Candidate availability varies by language and dictionary.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鞖
HTML hex
鞖
CSS content
content: "\9796";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%9E%96
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.