What 屉 means
It names a removable drawer, tray, or layered insert.
A Northern Zhou passage by Yu Xin uses it for a mirror drawer: pull it out, put things away. That job — separation and easy access — runs through the later senses: furniture compartment, steamer layer, woven panel.
A 1700s Qing small chest shows the furniture sense in wood: inner drawers holding seals and toilet articles. The 屟 link is dictionary history, not a meaning to use today.
Neutral and literal; the compound picks the object.
Drawer or steamer tier depends on context; in food talk, choose the latter.
Who writes 屉
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA pull-out furniture drawer.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 屉 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 屉
- Search it as
- 抽屉 · 抽屜 · 笼屉 · 籠屜 · 屉子 · 屜 · drawer · tray
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
屉\5C49Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.