What 匱 means
It means a chest, then also lack or exhaustion.
Transmitted pre-imperial classics use it for “not exhausted” and for a chest; the Han-era Shuowen dictionary defines it as a box.
The box sense broadened to lack or exhaustion. 匱乏 uses the shortage sense; 金匱 means a chest or storehouse for valuable records.
Who writes 匱
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-532E
Simplified Chinese form of 匱.
CJK Unified Ideograph-6Ac3
Later conventional cabinet character, linked to 匱's older box sense.
CJK Unified Ideograph-67Dc
Cabinet form paired with 櫃; linked to the box sense of 匱.
CJK Unified Ideograph-531A
The container part of 匱, tied to its box sense.
CJK Unified Ideograph-8Cb4
The part of 匱 that hints at its pronunciation.
Combination ideas
2Shortage or insufficiency.
A chest or storehouse for valuable records.
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How to type or find 匱
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- 匱 meaning · 匱 origin · 匱 simplified · 匮 · 匱乏 · 金匱 · 櫃 · 柜
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HTML
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\5331Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
匱
HTML hex
匱
CSS content
content: "\5331";
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URL encoded
%E5%8C%B1
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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
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