What 韥 means
A bow case or arrow tube; 韥 is a variant of 韣.
An early Chinese dictionary, 說文解字, from the Eastern Han period, defines 韣 as a bow covering and lists 韔 separately as another bow-cover term. Later Chinese rhyme dictionaries, which group entries by rhyme, identify 韥 as a variant of 韣; dictionaries also record an arrow-tube sense for 韥.
Classical passages use a case as an image for storing written learning.
Questions people ask
1Why does 韥 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 韥
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 97E5, then Alt+X to get 韥.
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-97e5”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 97e5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
韥CSS
\97E5Unicode input
If an input method accepts Unicode code points, enter 97E5 (U+97E5). As of 2026, a Japanese reference lists no mapping for 韥 in JIS X 0213 or Shift_JIS-2004.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
韥
HTML hex
韥
CSS content
content: "\97E5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%9F%A5
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.