What 鯲 means
It denotes a freshwater loach in Japanese. In ordinary text, どじょう is clear; 泥鰌 is another spelling.
鯲 is a Japanese-made kanji, or kokuji, from a tradition of compact, one-character fish names. The Japanese fish reference 魚鑑 lists 鯲 beside 泥鰌 in 1831.
A rare Japanese fish-name kanji; it reads like a reference entry, not casual chat.
For ordinary Japanese, use どじょう or 泥鰌.
Who writes 鯲
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 鯲 look different in another font?
Fonts can draw the same character with small differences in its strokes. The encoded character remains 鯲.
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How to type or find 鯲
- Also called
- どじょう · ドジョウ · 泥鰌
- Search it as
- dojou · loach · 鰍 · 魚へん · 鯲
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
鯲CSS
\9BF2Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鯲
HTML hex
鯲
CSS content
content: "\9BF2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%AF%B2
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.