What 齧 means
Its core image is teeth biting into something.
The early Chinese dictionary Shuowen Jiezi glosses it “噬也” (“to bite”) and analyzes 齧 as 齒 (“teeth”) plus 㓞, a sound component. Written forms appear on Qin-period bamboo slips and in later clerical and regular scripts. Older Chinese also used it for erosion and the gap left by gnawing.
In Japanese, 齧る (かじる) also describes having only a little knowledge or experience of something: you have nibbled at it, not mastered it.
Who writes 齧
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How to type or find 齧
- Search it as
- かじる · かむ · 啮 · 嚙 · 囓 · gnaw · nie
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
齧CSS
\9F67Japanese IME
Enter kajiru or kamu, then choose 齧.
Mandarin IME
Enter nie in pinyin; simplified input may return 啮.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
齧
HTML hex
齧
CSS content
content: "\9F67";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%BD%A7
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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.