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礓

cjk unified ideograph-7913

礓 (Chinese character jiāng)

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礓 (Mandarin Pinyin jiāng, with a high, even tone) is a Chinese character for a small stone or stony material. 礓石 names small stones; 砂礓 can mean a granular or blocky building material. Its earliest located attestation is on a Western Zhou bronze vessel, and its right-hand part 畺 supplies the sound.

Text symbol

What 礓 means

A small stone, pebble, or stony material.

The earliest located example is an inscription on a Western Zhou bronze vessel: 田礓父己觶. A Tang poem later uses 礓 for yellow stone; a Ming waterworks record, about systems for managing water, mentions 砂礓 blocks. These examples stay close to stone-related meanings. The left part 石 points to that sense, while the right part 畺 supplies the jiāng sound and also appears in 疆, meaning boundary or territory.

What does 礓 mean in a message?

Read it literally unless the surrounding words say otherwise.

A one-character message leaves the sender's reason unclear: they may be naming the word, quoting the character, or asking about it. If no stone-related topic fits, ask what phrase they meant.

A specialized Chinese word for stones or stony material, including a construction-material sense.

Alone, it may not make a clear reply without a stone-related topic.

Who writes 礓

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What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

A blocky or granular stone material used in construction.

Combination ideas

3
a small stone or pebble
a blocky or granular stone material used in construction
small stones or gravel

Questions people ask

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Why does 礓 look different in another font?

It can. Fonts for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text may draw this character according to different regional conventions. A changed shape alone does not make it a different character.

How to type or find 礓

Search it as
jiang · jiāng · pebble · gravel · stone · 礓石 · 砂礓 · 礓礫
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 7913, then AltX to get 礓.
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-7913”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 7913, then Enter or Space.
HTML
礓
CSS
\7913
Pinyin IME
On a Mandarin Pinyin keyboard, type jiang and choose 礓 from the candidates; sound-based input may offer several characters.
Cangjie
On a Traditional Chinese Cangjie keyboard, enter MRMWM, the recorded shape code, then select 礓 if candidates appear.
Handwriting
In a Chinese handwriting input panel, draw the character and select it from the matches; useful when you do not know its reading.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
礓
HTML hex
礓
CSS content
content: "\7913";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%A4%93
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On screen
1
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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