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皼

cjk unified ideograph-76bc

Chinese character 皼

皼 is a historical spelling of 鼓, the Chinese word for a drum and for beating one. In everyday modern Chinese, 鼓 is the familiar, clear form.

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皼 · 皷 · 鼔 · 鼓 · gǔ · 皼 meaning · variant of 鼓 · old form of 鼓
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What 皼 means

It names the instrument and the action of sounding it. In Chinese writing, 皼 is a historical variant of 鼓, not a separate word for another instrument.

A Tang inscription dated 677 pairs 皼 with 鼔, showing the form was already in use then.

The Song-dynasty compendium 《册府元龜》 describes watchtowers using 皼 to relay a theft alarm from village to village with one drum strike.

皼 gives ordinary Chinese prose a historical or specialist feel; 鼓 is clearer for general writing today.

Use 鼓 in ordinary prose; readers may take 皼 for an unfamiliar character.

Don't confuse it with

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鼓
CJK Unified Ideograph-9F13
皼 vs 鼓: 鼓 is the familiar modern form of the same Chinese word; 皼 is its historical variant.

Questions people ask

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Why does 皼 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 皼

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 76BC, then Alt+X to get 皼.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-76bc”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 76bc, then Enter or Space.
HTML
皼
CSS
\76BC
how to type 皼
In Mandarin pinyin input, enter gǔ, the pinyin spelling of 鼓, then select 皼 if it is offered.
Wubi shape input
In the Chinese Wubi shape-based input method, enter FPGC, then select 皼 from the candidates.
Cangjie shape input
In the Chinese Cangjie shape-based input method, enter GTDHE, then select 皼 from the candidates.
Four-corner lookup
For a four-corner dictionary lookup, enter 44147; it is a lookup code, not a keyboard sequence.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
皼
HTML hex
皼
CSS content
content: "\76BC";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%9A%BC
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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