What 魵 means
A fish-name character with a later shrimp or prawn gloss.
The Han-period dictionary Shuowen Jiezi calls 魵 a fish from 薉邪頭國, with 魚 for meaning and 分 for sound. Later dictionaries equate it with 鰕 (“shrimp”); another gloss describes a patterned fish, leaving the species unclear. Japanese dictionaries record えび, Japanese for shrimp.
Specialist and literary.
Questions people ask
1Why might 魵 show as a box?
A box means the active font cannot draw 魵. A font that includes this character can display it.
How to type 魵
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9B75, then Alt+X to get 魵.
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-9b75”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9b75, then Enter or Space.
HTML
魵CSS
\9B75How to type 魵
In Mandarin input, try fén or fèn; with Cangjie, enter NFCSH. Availability depends on the input method's dictionary.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
魵
HTML hex
魵
CSS content
content: "\9B75";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%AD%B5
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.