What 彏 means
It means quickly drawing a bowstring taut. 彏 names the action, not the bow.
The earliest known gloss appears in the Han-era Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary. It explains 彏 as 弓 for “bow” plus sound-bearing 矍. A Han-era Hanshu (Book of Han) passage uses 彏 for drawing a mighty bow; a Japanese kanji reference records the same action.
Literary, specialist vocabulary.
Who writes 彏
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Questions people ask
1Why does 彏 show as a box?
Rare-character fonts can change its form or show a missing-glyph box. Japanese reference data lists no JIS X 0213 or Shift_JIS-2004 entry as of 2026-09-10.
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How to type or find 彏
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- 彏 meaning · bowstring · archery character · 弓弦 · 急张弓
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\5F4FChinese pinyin
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Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
彏
HTML hex
彏
CSS content
content: "\5F4F";
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URL encoded
%E5%BD%8F
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
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