What 鬌 means
It names the part of a child's hair left untouched during a cut. The classical Chinese ritual text 《礼记·内则》 describes a child's third-month haircut and calls the portion left uncut 鬌; the early dictionary 《说文解字》 also glosses it as falling hair.
Questions people ask
1Why does 鬌 look different in another font?
Fonts for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text may follow regional glyph conventions or use a fallback. As of 2026, different strokes alone do not mean a different character.
How to type 鬌
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9B0C, then Alt+X to get 鬌.
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-9b0c”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9b0c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鬌CSS
\9B0CMandarin Pinyin
This sense is read duǒ (third tone, low then rising); some dictionaries also list duò (fourth, falling tone). Type `duo` in an IME; if absent, try handwriting or radical lookup.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鬌
HTML hex
鬌
CSS content
content: "\9B0C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%AC%8C
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.