What 燧 means
A fire-making tool; in signal compounds, a night beacon. 燧人氏 is a legendary culture hero associated with making fire by drilling wood. 燧石 means flint, while 烽燧 refers to a frontier beacon.
Classical accounts distinguish daytime 烽 smoke from nighttime 燧 fire. 阳燧 names a sun mirror used to focus sunlight and kindle tinder.
Literary and historical; on its own, 燧 reads as a specialist word.
In 烽燧, 燧 is the nighttime signal fire, not a household fire.
Who writes 燧
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Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
3Legendary culture hero associated with making fire by drilling wood.
Flint, the stone used to strike sparks.
Frontier signaling: 烽 was daytime smoke, 燧 nighttime fire.
Questions people ask
1Why does 燧 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 燧
- Search it as
- 燧人氏 · 燧石 · 阳燧 · 烽燧 · sui · flint · beacon · hiuchi
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
燧CSS
\71E7Chinese Pinyin IME
Type sui, then select 燧 from the character candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
燧
HTML hex
燧
CSS content
content: "\71E7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%87%A7
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.