What 鯵 means
It writes あじ, a Japanese name for horse mackerel and related fish.
On menus and recipes, aji usually means horse mackerel, called maaji in Japanese; it can also name related jack fish.
Older Chinese dictionaries connect a related character form with a fishy smell. In Japan, the early character dictionary 新撰字鏡 records the fish name as 鰺, written 阿知, around 898–901.
Straight Japanese fish-name vocabulary in menus, seafood labels, recipes, and reference text.
Who writes 鯵
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 鯵 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.
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How to type or find 鯵
- Also called
- aji · あじ · アジ
- Search it as
- maaji · horse mackerel
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
鯵CSS
\9BF5Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鯵
HTML hex
鯵
CSS content
content: "\9BF5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%AF%B5
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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.