What 珤 means
It writes the same word as 寶.
寶 appears in oracle-bone and bronze inscriptions, early Chinese records carved on bone or cast on bronze. A Western Han silk copy of the Laozi, found at the Mawangdui tomb site, uses 珤 in the “three treasures” passage. A Tang epitaph and a Dunhuang manuscript also use it.
When should I write 珤?
Use it to preserve a historical spelling.
Use 寶 in traditional Chinese or 宝 in simplified Chinese for standard writing. Keep 珤 when following a historical source or deliberately choosing its archaic look. Its strokes vary by font; as of 2024, default fonts in Windows 10 and later included it.
Archaic; choosing it preserves an older spelling.
Who writes 珤
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 珤 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 珤
- Search it as
- bǎo · 珤 variant · treasure
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
珤\73E4Codes and encoding1 code points
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