What 飰 means
It is a variant of 飯, the Chinese character for rice.
In Chinese, 飯 means rice, a meal, or eating and feeding. “Variant” means another written form of the same word.
The 2024 Taiwan Ministry of Education variant dictionary traces 飰’s first record to 敦煌俗字譜, an old catalogue of folk character forms from Dunhuang. It cites differing labels—folk in 玉篇, ancient in 字學三正—but classifies 飰 as a variant of 飯.
Historical or variant writing; 飯 is standard in ordinary Chinese prose.
Questions people ask
1Why does 飰 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 飰
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 98F0, then Alt+X to get 飰.
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-98f0”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 98f0, then Enter or Space.
HTML
飰CSS
\98F0Chinese input methods
Mandarin Pinyin: enter fàn or fan4, then choose 飰 if listed. Han Dian lists Wubi wyvh/wvyh and Cangjie oiyy (as of 2026-09-12).
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
飰
HTML hex
飰
CSS content
content: "\98F0";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%A3%B0
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.