What 頝 means
It describes a head or face as not pleasing. The gloss 不媚 judges appearance.
The sixth-century dictionary 玉篇 glosses it as 不媚, “not pleasing.” Later dictionaries pair it with 䫜 in 頝䫜. Another Mandarin reading, qiǎo, has the milder gloss 薄媚, “somewhat charming.”
Archaic and dictionary-oriented. As of 2026, no separate chat reading is established.
Questions people ask
1Why does 頝 show as a box?
A font or app without this glyph may show an empty box or a placeholder. That display problem does not change the character encoded in the text.
How to type 頝
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 981D, then Alt+X to get 頝.
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-981d”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 981d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
頝CSS
\981DMandarin Pinyin IME
Type qiao without a tone mark, then select 頝 if it appears among the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
頝
HTML hex
頝
CSS content
content: "\981D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%A0%9D
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.