What 劎 means
It means sword or dagger and is a variant of 劍.
In bronze inscriptions, 劍 pairs 金 (“metal”) with 僉 as a sound clue; a later seal-script form, an old formal style, uses 刃 (“blade”).
A Tang-era Chinese character guide, 五經文字, records 劎 as a variant of 劍. Japanese references list 劎 as an old form beside 剣, the modern standard form.
Keep 劎 when quoting a source; standardize it only when editing the spelling.
Who writes 劎
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 劎 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 劎
- Search it as
- dagger character · 劎 variant · sword kanji · jian · ken · tsurugi
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
劎CSS
\528EHow to type 劎
Enter 528E in a Unicode-hex field; opening that field depends on your operating system.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
劎
HTML hex
劎
CSS content
content: "\528E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%8A%8E
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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.