What 鷇 means
A nestling still waiting to be fed.
Early glosses say it is fed by its mother, against 雛, which pecks for itself. So 鷇 names a feeding stage, not every young bird.
What changed in later uses?
Still a young bird, in wider frames.
Texts pair 鷇 with eggs when protecting young wildlife, and later gloss a chick about to hatch; 鷇飲, plain living, reuses the nestling image for a simple life.
Classical and bookish; keep it in a gloss or quotation.
Do not use it for any chick.
Who writes 鷇
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Questions people ask
1Why does 鷇 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 鷇
- Search it as
- kou · kou4 · nestling · fledgling · hatchling · 幼鳥
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
鷇CSS
\9DC7Pinyin IME
Type kou4 and pick 鷇 from the candidates.
Missing glyph
A box means missing font coverage; switch fonts or copy it from the palette above.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鷇
HTML hex
鷇
CSS content
content: "\9DC7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%B7%87
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.