What 鱻 means
It means “fresh fish,” the old form behind 鮮.
China's early Shuowen dictionary glosses 鱻 as fresh-caught fish, built from three 魚. Tripling signals abundance and freshness at once. Later writing settled on 鮮 for fresh, leaving 鱻 rare; through 尟 it can also point to “few.” A 2026 discussion reports 鱻 on seafood-shop signs, where the triple fish works as eye-catching branding.
Rare and learned; use 鮮 for ordinary writing.
Sent alone, it may need explanation.
Questions people ask
1Is 鱻 an emoji?
No. As of 2026, it is a typed Han character, so fonts control its appearance; different fonts can change its strokes.
How to type 鱻
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9C7B, then Alt+X to get 鱻.
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-9c7b”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9c7b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鱻CSS
\9C7BCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鱻
HTML hex
鱻
CSS content
content: "\9C7B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%B1%BB
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.