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廏

cjk unified ideograph-5ecf

Stable Character

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廏 means a horse stable or livestock shed. Bronze inscriptions from the late Spring and Autumn period show this character family; it appears later in manuscripts from the ancient state of Chu and in Shuowen, an early Chinese dictionary. Traditional lexicons also record “to gather.”

Text symbol

What 廏 means

A place where horses or livestock are kept.

The Zhouli, a classic on ritual and government, describes a staffed stable; 廏 also appears in titles for stable officials.

廏 vs 廄: do they mean different things?

廏 is a variant of 廄, not a separate meaning.

Use the spelling your source or style guide requires; fonts may draw the strokes differently.

Historical variant; retain it when a source uses this spelling.

Check the variant before reading it as a new word.

Who writes 廏

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Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does 廏 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.

How to type or find 廏

Also called
廄 · 廐 · 厩
Search it as
廏 · horse stable · stable
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 5ECF, then AltX to get 廏.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-5ecf”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 5ecf, then Enter or Space.
HTML
廏
CSS
\5ECF
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
廏
HTML hex
廏
CSS content
content: "\5ECF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%BB%8F
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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.

Families this belongs to

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