What 夾 means
It means holding or placing something between two sides.
Oracle writing, carved on bones or shells, and bronze inscriptions preserve early forms. Scholars read the shape as someone held between two others, though the exact picture is debated. Bronze texts also use 夾 for helping.
Are 夾 and 夹 the same character?
They are traditional and simplified forms of one character.
Traditional Chinese uses 夾; simplified Chinese uses 夹. Japanese uses 夾 in compounds; its everyday verb for sandwiching is 挟む.
Who writes 夾
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3attack from both sides
mixed in
middle layer
Questions people ask
1Why does 夾 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 夾
- Search it as
- jia · 夹 · 夾 vs 夹 · traditional 夾
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
夾CSS
\593EPinyin IME
Set Chinese to Traditional (繁體), enter jia, then choose 夾 from the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
夾
HTML hex
夾
CSS content
content: "\593E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%A4%BE
1
On screen
1
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.