What 饤 means
It means food set out for display. Tang-period poems and court-food records use it for dishes arranged to be viewed. In later literary criticism, 饤饾 extends that display image to prose overloaded with decorative wording.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
2饤饾 meaning: food for display; figuratively, prose overloaded with decorative wording.
饤座 meaning: food or fruit placed at a seat for display.
Questions people ask
1Why does 饤 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 饤
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9964, then Alt+X to get 饤.
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-9964”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9964, then Enter or Space.
HTML
饤CSS
\9964Pinyin
How to type 饤: In a Chinese IME, enter Mandarin pinyin ding or ding4, then select 饤 if offered.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
饤
HTML hex
饤
CSS content
content: "\9964";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%A5%A4
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.