What 韈 means
It is an older written form of the Chinese word for socks or stockings.
The Zuo Zhuan, an old Chinese history text, uses it in a ritual scene, where the foot covering belongs to proper dress. The Shuowen Jiezi, an old character dictionary, defines the word as clothing for the feet.
Who writes 韈
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-97E4
The Shuowen Jiezi records this form and describes 韈 as a common variant of it.
CJK Unified Ideograph-896A
The usual traditional-character form of the same word; dictionaries link it to the older forms 韤 and 韈.
CJK Unified Ideograph-889C
The usual simplified-character form of the same Chinese word.
Questions people ask
1Why does 韈 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.
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How to type or find 韈
- Search it as
- 襪 · 袜 · 韤 · socks · stockings · wà · 足衣
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
韈CSS
\97C8Mandarin Pinyin
On a Mandarin Pinyin keyboard, enter wa without a tone mark, then select 韈 from the candidates.
Cangjie
On a Cangjie shape-based Chinese keyboard, enter TJTWI.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
韈
HTML hex
韈
CSS content
content: "\97C8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%9F%88
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On screen
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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.