What 頴 means
It is the rare variant in the 穎 family. For “what does 頴 mean,” read it through 穎: the familiar form carries the grain-tip and standout-talent senses, while 頴 is the spelling you meet in names, old texts, and variant lists.
Use 穎 or 颖 for normal writing. Keep 頴 when quoting a name or source exactly, and do not swap the forms when accuracy matters.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Why does 頴 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 頴
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9834, then Alt+X to get 頴.
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-9834”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9834, then Enter or Space.
HTML
頴CSS
\9834Easiest
Copy 頴 from the palette above; handwriting or pinyin lookup for ying can also surface it.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
頴
HTML hex
頴
CSS content
content: "\9834";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%A0%B4
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.