What 篞 means
It names the middle pipe in an old Chinese musical classification. The Erya, an early Chinese glossary, gives three pipe names by size: large 簥, middle 篞, and small 篎.
Later character dictionaries preserve the instrument sense and record 𥭧 as an alternate form.
A historical, lexicographic term for an old Chinese pipe; use it in that context or when discussing the character.
Who writes 篞
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Related characters
3𥭧
CJK Unified Ideograph-25B67
Dictionaries record this as an alternate written form of 篞.
CJK Unified Ideograph-7C25
In the Erya size classification, this is the large pipe; 篞 is the middle-sized one.
CJK Unified Ideograph-7Bce
In the same Erya classification, this is the small pipe; 篞 names the middle-sized one.
Questions people ask
1Why is 竹 part of 篞?
The top part 竹 marks bamboo; the lower part 涅 points to the sound. The character combines a meaning clue with a sound clue.
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How to type or find 篞
- Search it as
- 篞 pronunciation · 篞 variant · ancient Chinese pipe · middle-sized pipe · niè
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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nie in a Mandarin input method and select 篞 if it appears in the suggestions.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
篞
HTML hex
篞
CSS content
content: "\7BDE";
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URL encoded
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