What 垼 means
A purpose-built earthen stove for a mourning rite.
In the transmitted 儀禮, an old Chinese handbook of ceremonies assembled during the Warring States period from older ritual material, attendants dug a pit and built the stove by the west wall. They heated water there to wash the dead.
Classical and specialized: 垼 names a particular object in a ritual account.
Use 灶 for the ordinary Chinese word for a stove; 垼 names a specific ritual stove.
Who writes 垼
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Questions people ask
1Why does 垼 show as a box?
Your font may lack a glyph for 垼, so the device can show a replacement box or blank space; the intended character remains the same.
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How to type or find 垼
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
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\57BCMandarin Pinyin IME
In a Mandarin Pinyin IME, type yi4, the input spelling for its Mandarin reading yì, then select 垼 from the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
垼
HTML hex
垼
CSS content
content: "\57BC";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%9E%BC
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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.