What 餴 means
It means finishing partly boiled rice by steaming it.
The Han-era Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, gives 𩞑 as the headword and lists 饙 and 餴 as variants.
The Book of Songs uses 餴饎 in a passage about preparing food for an offering. If 餴 appears as a box, the font lacks its glyph.
Historical and philological; gloss its rice-cooking sense outside a quotation.
Questions people ask
1Why does 餴 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 餴
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9934, then Alt+X to get 餴.
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-9934”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9934, then Enter or Space.
HTML
餴CSS
\9934Pinyin
In a Chinese Pinyin input method, enter fēn and select 餴. Cangjie users can try OIKJT.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
餴
HTML hex
餴
CSS content
content: "\9934";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%A4%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.