CJK Character 墻

墻 means “wall” and is an alternate form of 牆, pronounced qiáng in Mandarin. It names a built barrier, with old literary uses stretching that wall into secrecy and family quarrels. In normal modern Traditional Chinese, write 牆; keep 墻 when you need this exact variant.

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What 墻 means

A wall; 墻 is a variant of 牆.

It names a built barrier. The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, glosses 牆 as a screen or barrier, and the Classic of Poetry, an early poetry collection, uses the wall word in a poem traditionally read as court satire.

Read this exact form the same way: same qiáng sound, same wall sense.

Is 墻 the same as 牆?

Yes; they are the same word.

Taiwan's current references list 墻 as an alternate form with 牆 as the standard, so 兄弟鬩牆, quarrelling brothers within walls, means conflict inside a family.

Use 牆 for ordinary writing; use 墻 only when matching a name, quoted text, or this exact code point.

A marked alternate form; the routine modern choice is 牆.

Do not read 墻 as a different word from 牆.

Who writes 墻

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Questions people ask

Why does 墻 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.