What 矟 means
Enter shuo in a Mandarin Pinyin keyboard. Select 矟, the candidate with 矛 on the left; 槊 appears under the same input. Cangjie, another Chinese input method, uses NHFB.
If it renders as a box, the active font lacks 矟. The character itself is unchanged; readers also need a font containing this glyph.
What does 矟 mean?
It names a long lance. 《釋名》, a Chinese book about word origins from the Eastern Han dynasty, describes a long spear carried on horseback. A tomb inscription from the Sui dynasty is another witness to this exact written form.
Song dynasty records place 矟 in formal guard and ceremonial-procession vocabulary. After the Song and Yuan dynasties, 槍 became the broader name for related long-shaft weapons.
Historical and weapon-specific, suited to writing about old weapons or the language around them.
If it arrives alone, start with the historical weapon sense.
Who writes 矟
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 矟 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 矟
- Also called
- 槊
- Search it as
- shuo · shuò · 长槊 · 长矛 · 矛 · lance · spear · variant character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
矟\77DFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.