What 魟 means
A character for a ray or stingray. It was coined to name the flat, tailed fish, with no single inventor as of 2026; early dictionaries omit it, while Song dynasty rhyme books record 䰸 and 魟 as related forms.
A Tang dynasty account describes 黃魟魚 as flat, tailed and venomous, and a Taiwanese dictionary in 2026 preserves the Penghu saying 一魟、二虎、三沙門、四板午, ranking its sting first. For general readers, write the two-character stingray name 魟魚.
Literal and regional; 魟魚 is clearer for general readers.
Read it as a fish, not an emoji reaction.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1stingray, the clear form
Questions people ask
1Is 魟 an emoji?
No. It is a font-drawn Han character; as of 2026, it has no emoji artwork or variants.
How to type 魟
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9B5F, then Alt+X to get 魟.
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-9b5f”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9b5f, then Enter or Space.
HTML
魟CSS
\9B5FPinyin IME
Type hong and pick 魟 from candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
魟
HTML hex
魟
CSS content
content: "\9B5F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%AD%9F
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.