What 圹 means
A grave pit; classically, also wilderness. It names the earth cut for burial. It is an inherited character, not an invented sign: the defensible trail in this pass runs from 壙 in classical texts to the Shuowen Jiezi entry (around 100 CE), which analyzes it as 土 plus 廣.
This is the simplified-traditional form pair to learn: simplified texts print 圹, traditional texts print 壙. Through 曠 it also touches “empty” or “neglected.” 墓 is the broader tomb word, while 圹/壙 names the excavated pit, so let 壙穴 and 壙野 settle which sense you have.
Formal and literary, with a funerary edge.
Without context, grave pit and wilderness are easy to conflate.
Who writes 圹
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2Questions people ask
1Why does 圹 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 圹
- Also called
- 壙
- Search it as
- kuang · kuàng · kuang4 · grave · tomb · burial · coffin · pit
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
圹\5739Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.