What 粼 means
It shows stones through clear water. The Shuowen, an early Chinese dictionary, glosses 粼 as water among bank stones. A pre-Qin poem in the Shijing, an early Chinese poetry collection, says “扬之水，白石粼粼”—flowing water, gleaming white stones.
Today, 粼 most often appears doubled as 粼粼 for clear water or light flickering on it; 波光粼粼 means shimmering water. A Japanese literary example from 1683 uses 粼粼 for transparent water with riverbed stones visible.
Literary and scenic; 粼粼 paints water or visible stones.
粼 and 磷 are related spellings, but they are different characters.
Who writes 粼
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Questions people ask
1Why does 粼 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 粼
- Search it as
- 粼粼 · 波光粼粼 · 磷磷 · lin
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
粼\7CBCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.