What 巿 means
It was a waist-tied front panel in ancient Chinese dress. Descriptions of court and ritual clothing say its colors varied by rank. The garment is also called 蔽膝 in Chinese, literally “knee covering.”
Its written shape continued from bronze inscriptions into seal script, an older rounded style, clerical script, and regular script. The garment name also appears in the fuller Chinese characters 韍 and 韨, related forms of 巿. In 沛, 芾, and 旆, 巿 serves as a phonetic component, a part that hints at pronunciation.
Who writes 巿
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 巿 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 巿
- Search it as
- fu · fú · hizakake · futsu · 韍 · 韨 · 蔽膝 · 市
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
巿\5DFFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.