What 饚 means
It means food with a bad smell. The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, defines 餀 as “food stench”; later dictionaries record 饚 as an alternate written form of 餀.
The recorded sense is literal and dictionary-like; plain wording is clearer for an everyday message.
When the condition matters, say “the food smells bad” plainly.
Questions people ask
1Why does 饚 show as a box?
It can. If the font in use lacks this character, it may appear as a box or blank. A font that includes the character can display it.
How to type 饚
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 995A, then Alt+X to get 饚.
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-995a”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 995a, then Enter or Space.
HTML
饚CSS
\995ACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
饚
HTML hex
饚
CSS content
content: "\995A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%A5%9A
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.