What 鼃 means
It means “frog” and is a variant of 蛙.
The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary compiled around 100 CE, explains 鼃 as 黽 (the frog part) plus 圭 (a sound cue).
Taiwan’s Education Ministry lists 鼃 as a variant of standard 蛙 in its 2024 edition.
Historical and specialist; it marks a variant spelling.
Use 蛙 for ordinary modern Chinese.
Who writes 鼃
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Can fonts change 鼃’s appearance?
Yes. Fonts for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text may draw this character with different regional forms. The encoded character remains 鼃; its appearance is font-dependent.
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How to type or find 鼃
- Search it as
- 鼃 meaning · 鼃 蛙 difference · 鼃 䵷 difference · 鼃 pinyin · wa
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
鼃CSS
\9F03Pinyin IME
Type
wa in a Chinese pinyin IME; select 鼃 if it appears.Unicode hex
Enter
9F03 in a Unicode-aware hex input method.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鼃
HTML hex
鼃
CSS content
content: "\9F03";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%BC%83
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On screen
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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.