What 髂 means
髂 names the ilium, an upper pelvic bone.
It appears in 髂骨; older dictionaries glossed it as 腰骨 (“waist bone”).
The Han Shu, an early Chinese history, uses 腰骨. The early dictionary Shuowen Jiezi omits 髂 and treats 骼 as older. A 2023 study traces Japanese 腸骨 to 1774 and estimates Chinese 髂骨 textbook use around 1921.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 髂 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 髂
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9AC2, then Alt+X to get 髂.
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-9ac2”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9ac2, then Enter or Space.
HTML
髂CSS
\9AC2How to type 髂 — mainland Pinyin
The mainland dictionary reads qià; enter qia in a Pinyin keyboard and select 髂.
Taiwan Zhuyin
Taiwan’s dictionary reads kà; enter ㄎㄚˋ in a Zhuyin keyboard and select 髂.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
髂
HTML hex
髂
CSS content
content: "\9AC2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%AB%82
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.