What 仄 means
It starts with a slant. China's early Shuowen dictionary explains 仄 as a person leaning under an overhang, 厂; later senses stretch to narrow, uneasy, lowly, and beside. Say it zè in Mandarin.
In 平仄, 仄 is the whole oblique side: the rising, departing, and entering tones set against level 平. That contrast organized classical regulated verse, while Japanese keeps the sideways idea as faintness — 仄聞, something heard indirectly, and 仄めかす, to hint.
Literary and technical; 平仄 and 仄声 belong to prosody.
In 平仄, 仄 is not one modern tone; it groups three historical tones.
Who writes 仄
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1Why does 仄 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 仄
- Search it as
- ze · ze4 · pingze · 平仄 · 仄声 · 仄聞 · 仄か · 仄めかす
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
仄\4EC4Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.