What 颾 means
It writes a wind sound with two Mandarin readings.
Mandarin pinyin, a spelling system for its sounds, writes them as sāo and sōu; both use a high, even tone. sāo names wind noise; sōu links to 颼. Repeating 颾 forms the sound-word 颾颾. Taiwan's Ministry of Education variant record cites 玉篇, a Chinese dictionary compiled around 543; later rhyme dictionaries preserve both readings.
Rare and dictionary-like; it suits old texts or deliberate archaic styling.
In casual messages, 颾 may look like a typo; choose 颼 or 飕 to match traditional or simplified text.
Who writes 颾
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How to type or find 颾
- Also called
- sāo · sōu · 颼
- Search it as
- sao · sou · wind sound
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
颾CSS
\98BECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
颾
HTML hex
颾
CSS content
content: "\98BE";
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URL encoded
%E9%A2%BE
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On screen
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
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