What 椊 means
A fitted wooden peg or handle; also rotten or brittle wood.
In joinery, this is a tenon: a projecting piece that locks wooden parts together. A Western Han manuscript of the ancient Chinese text Laozi has 柔椊 where the familiar text has 柔脆; there, 椊 is a sound-based stand-in for 脆 (“brittle”). Lexicons link it with 枘, a pillar-end tenon, and 椊杌, a fitted handle or short piece of wood jutting out.
Specialized: historical texts and joinery descriptions.
Who writes 椊
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsA pillar-end tenon or a handle fitted into a hole.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 椊 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 椊
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- 椊杌 · zuo · cui · tenon · brittle
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
椊\690Azuo for joinery or cui for brittle; then select 椊 from the candidates.DYOJ is the listed shape-based input sequence.Codes and encoding1 code points
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