What 稯 means
It records two historical counting systems. The form is shown in Qin-system slips and a Western Han Juyan slip, then preserved in the Shuowen tradition. Its practical job was accounting: a fixed unit for harvested grain and another for cloth thread. In the Zhuangzi passage, repetition gives 稯稯 the sense “gathered” or “crowded.”
Historical or philological; using it signals an exact or deliberately archaic choice.
For zongzi, send 粽—not 稯.
Who writes 稯
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Don't confuse it with
1粽 / 糉 稯 vs 粽: 粽/糉 name the wrapped-rice food; some historical accounts connect that word to 稯’s bundle sense, but they are not safe modern substitutes.
Questions people ask
1Why does 稯 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 稯
- Also called
- zōng · zǒng · 稯布
- Search it as
- zong · zongbu · zongzong · grain measure · cloth measure
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
稯\7A2FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.