What 斲 means
Its core sense is shaping wood by cutting with an axe.
In this character, 斤 points to the axe, while the other part supplies the sound. Older literary Chinese also uses 斲 for the axe itself and for decorative carving. The cited bronze forms are dated differently: Western Zhou in one account and Warring States in another. Later written styles include small-seal and Han clerical script.
In Chinese, it is literary and old-fashioned, suited to classical or deliberately archaic writing.
Alone in casual chat it may look like a typo; 砍 is plainer for everyday chopping.
Who writes 斲
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Questions people ask
1Why does 斲 show as a box?
A box means the active font lacks a glyph for 斲. Default fonts on Windows 10 and later included it as of 2024.
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How to type or find 斲
- Search it as
- zhuo · chop · carve · axe · 斫 · 斵
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
斲\65B2Codes and encoding1 code points
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