What 挡 means
It blocks, stops, or shields something.
Traditional 擋 adds the hand radical 扌 to 當; simplified 挡 uses 当. 《玉篇》, a Chinese dictionary compiled in 543, lists 擋 with the gloss 摒擋 (“clear or arrange”).
Neutral in everyday Chinese; compounds set the force.
Calling someone a 挡箭牌 can accuse them of serving as cover.
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
2Block or cover something physically.
A shield; figuratively, a pretext or person used as cover.
Questions people ask
1Why does 挡 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 挡
- Search it as
- dang · dǎng · 挡住 · 阻挡 · 挡箭牌 · 擋
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
挡CSS
\6321How do I type 挡?
On a Chinese Pinyin keyboard (Latin-letter input), type
dang, then select 挡. Entering 挡住 narrows candidates when the tones are ambiguous.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
挡
HTML hex
挡
CSS content
content: "\6321";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E6%8C%A1
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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
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.