What 鐕 means
It represents 鐕, a nail used to fasten objects.
An Eastern Han dictionary, the Shuowen Jiezi, glosses 鐕 as something used to fasten objects. A passage in the Book of Rites, an old ritual text, mentions metal and cow-bone 鐕 used to secure a coffin lining.
Does 鐕 normalize to 鐕?
Yes—even NFC and NFD turn it into 鐕.
Taiwan’s CNS 11643 text standard assigns this form a separate slot, which Unicode kept for reversible conversion. Normalization, an automatic text-cleanup step, maps it to 鐕 even in NFC and NFD, Unicode’s canonical forms. If a record must retain this exact form, check whether its software normalizes text.
Who writes 鐕
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Questions people ask
1Why does 鐕 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 鐕
- Search it as
- 鐕 · 鐟 · zān · nail
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
鐕\2F9ECCodes and encoding1 code points
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