What 燺 means
Drying or roasting over fire — read kào.
The 'withered' character 槁/槀 appears in China's oldest inscriptions — oracle bones, bronzes, Warring States manuscripts — while 燺 itself never headed the 說文, the Han-era dictionary; as of 2024 Taiwan's Ministry of Education lists it as a 熇 variant.
熇 broadened to fierce heat and 熇熇 'blazing', imagery classical texts turned on oppressive rule.
Literary and lexicographic — a dictionary word, not a casual reaction.
Don't read it as a casual 'fire!' reaction.
Who writes 燺
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 燺 show as a box?
A font gap. One Japanese dictionary marks it environment-dependent; the 2024 Taiwan CNS record lists Windows 10 support.
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How to type or find 燺
- Also called
- 熇
- Search it as
- 燺 · 烤 · 烘烤 · 乾燥 · kao
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
燺CSS
\71FACangjie
Taiwan's CNS record lists FYRD.
By code point
Type 71FA then AltX in Word; on a Mac, find U71FA in Character Viewer.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
燺
HTML hex
燺
CSS content
content: "\71FA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%87%BA
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On screen
1
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.