What 厢 means
A room beside a building. In 厢, 广 is building-related; 相 hints at the sound.
Han-era histories use 東廂 for an east-side room. 《說文》 lacks the entry; its supplement 《說文新附》 glosses 廂 as “corridor.” By the Song dynasty, 廂 also named city districts and nearby areas.
Is 廂 the traditional form of 厢?
Yes. 廂 is the traditional Chinese form of simplified 厢.
Ming-era texts also use 廂 for boxes. In modern Chinese, 箱 usually means a storage box; 厢 means an occupied room or compartment.
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Who writes 厢
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3A room in a side wing.
A vehicle compartment.
A one-sided wish.
Questions people ask
1Why does 厢 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 厢
- Search it as
- xiāng · xiang · 厢房 · 车厢 · 包厢 · 一厢情愿 · 廂
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
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\53A2How to type 厢
With Pinyin input, type xiang and choose 厢. Entering 车厢 narrows the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
厢
HTML hex
厢
CSS content
content: "\53A2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%8E%A2
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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.