What 椡 means
In Japanese, it writes くぬぎ. It is a kokuji (a kanji made in Japan) and appears in 三ツ椡, read みつくぬぎ, a Shibata place name.
A Japanese dictionary cites くぬぎ in a 720 passage of the Nihon Shoki, an early chronicle. Late Edo village records include 三ツ椡村 and 三ツ椡新田.
Unihan also lists Mandarin dào (roughly 'dow' with falling pitch) and Cantonese dou3 (roughly 'doh' at a level pitch).
A rare Japanese tree-name kanji with a documented place-name use.
Who writes 椡
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Questions people ask
1Why does 椡 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 椡
- Also called
- くぬぎ
- Search it as
- 三ツ椡 · みつくぬぎ · kokuji · Shibata place name
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
椡\6921Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.






