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鯮

cjk unified ideograph-9bee

Chinese character 鯮

鯮 is a rare character used in fish names; the language and compound can point to different fish. 鯼 is recorded as an equivalent written form.

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鯮魚 · 鯮鱼 · 鯼 · 赤鯮 · zong · zōng · 鯮 pinyin
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What 鯮 means

A specialist character for naming fish.

Chen Cangqi's materia-medica work—a reference on medicinal substances—records the fish as food; it dates to 739.

Why does 鯮 name different fish?

The two compounds point to distinct kinds of fish.

Chinese references use 鯮魚 for a large freshwater species with a pointed head and a duckbill-like snout. Taiwanese Hokkien—a variety of Hokkien spoken in Taiwan—uses 赤鯮 for a local marine fish. Taiwan's Ministry of Education lists this use in 2024.

A specialist fish-name character; outside a fish name, it has a reference-book feel.

Combination ideas

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Chinese reference name for a large freshwater fish.
Regional name for a local marine fish.

Questions people ask

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Why does 鯮 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 鯮

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9BEE, then Alt+X to get 鯮.
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-9bee”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9bee, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鯮
CSS
\9BEE
Mandarin Pinyin
With a Mandarin Pinyin input method, type zong or zōng and select 鯮 from the candidates.
Cangjie
In a Cangjie input method, enter NFJMF and select 鯮.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鯮
HTML hex
鯮
CSS content
content: "\9BEE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%AF%AE
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On screen
1
Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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