What 刬 means
At its core, 刬 describes shaving something down. It refers to scraping a surface level or cutting material away; the sense extends to removing or abolishing.
Early forms of 剗 appear in bamboo slips from Chu, an ancient Chinese state. The Baoshan slips—texts written on bamboo strips—date to before 316 BCE.
Use 刬 within a Chinese word or passage when that exact written form is intended.
Alone, it does not tell you whether to read chǎn or chàn.
Who writes 刬
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Scrape or smooth a surface level.
Remove or abolish.
A dialect phrase for “all” or “uniformly”; dictionaries record this reading in 2026.
Questions people ask
1Why does 刬 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 刬
- Search it as
- 刬 · 剗 · 剷 · 铲 · 刬除 · 一刬 · chǎn · chàn
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
刬CSS
\522CPinyin IME
Enter chan in a Mandarin Pinyin input method, then select 刬 from the candidates; phrase context helps distinguish chǎn from chàn.
Wubi
Enter GJH in Wubi, then choose 刬 from the candidate list.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
刬
HTML hex
刬
CSS content
content: "\522C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%88%AC
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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.