What 𭽽 means
A bowl in the monk’s everyday kit.
A Chinese Buddhist chronicle printed in 1600 describes rice in a golden 𭽽. Texts from Chinese Chan Buddhism, a meditation tradition, pair it with a monk’s robe and use “一瓶一𭽽” (“a bottle and a bowl”) to list a monk’s belongings. Dictionaries link it to 盋 and record 盋, 鉢, and 缽 across the bowl word’s spelling history.
Who writes 𭽽
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-76Cb
Chinese dictionaries identify 𭽽 with 盋, the older written form of the bowl word; in Mandarin, 盋 is read bō.
CJK Unified Ideograph-9262
鉢 is a later written form of the same bowl word, used for the vessel a Buddhist monk eats from or receives alms in.
CJK Unified Ideograph-7F3D
Chinese character dictionaries record 缽 as another form of the bowl word, alongside 盋 and 鉢.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𭽽 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 𭽽
- Search it as
- alms bowl · monk's bowl · bō · 盋 · 鉢 · 缽
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𭽽CSS
\2DF7DCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𭽽
HTML hex
𭽽
CSS content
content: "\2DF7D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%AD%BD%BD
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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.