What 餶 means
It names the first character in a food term.
餶 appears in 餶飿, a historical name for a flour-based food. Records from the Song period list the term among city foods.
Why does 餶 look different from 馉?
餶 is traditional; 馉 is its simplified counterpart.
Use the form that matches the Chinese script around it: the food word appears as 餶飿 in traditional writing and 馉饳 in simplified writing.
A historical food-name character, preserved in 餶飿.
Use 馉 in simplified Chinese text; 餶 is the traditional form.
Don't confuse it with
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It is a food entry in 《武林舊事》, a text from the Song period that lists city foods.
How to type 餶
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9936, then Alt+X to get 餶.
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-9936”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9936, then Enter or Space.
HTML
餶CSS
\9936Unicode-aware input
In an input method with Unicode code-point entry, enter U+9936; if it rejects “U+”, enter 9936 in that method’s hexadecimal format.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
餶
HTML hex
餶
CSS content
content: "\9936";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%A4%B6
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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.