What 墽 means
It describes hard, stony, infertile soil. The early Eastern Han 說文解字, a Chinese character dictionary, records its soil sense. Classical land descriptions contrast it with 肥 (“fertile”) when comparing soil quality.
Is 墽 a variant of 磽?
墽 is a recorded variant of 磽. A 3rd-century Chinese dictionary, 廣雅, also gives 墽 a separate sense, “to discard.” In that use, the surrounding words identify which meaning is intended.
Rare and literary; it fits classical writing and dictionary entries.
Who writes 墽
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-78Fd
Chinese character dictionaries list 墽 as a variant of 磽; both carry the classical sense of hard, poor, stony soil.
CJK Unified Ideograph-7857
硗 is the simplified Chinese form of 磽. Since 墽 is listed as a variant of 磽, the simplified form is connected through that character.
Questions people ask
1Why does 墽 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 墽
- Search it as
- qiao · barren soil · stony ground · 磽 · discard
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
墽CSS
\58BDCangjie
To type 墽 with the Cangjie Chinese input method, enter GHSK, the key sequence for 土竹尸大. Other input methods may need a rare-character lookup.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
墽
HTML hex
墽
CSS content
content: "\58BD";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%A2%BD
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.