What 繲 means
It means washing clothes; dictionaries also give “old clothes.” The Zhuangzi, a classical Chinese text dated around the 3rd–2nd centuries BCE, uses 治繲 for livelihood work.
What if someone sends me 繲?
Treat it as historical unless context says otherwise.
繲 is obsolete alone in modern Standard Chinese; Classical Chinese readers may know the Zhuangzi phrase. Alone, it can look like a typo.
Archaic and literary; suited to classical quotation.
Alone, it can look like a typo; add context.
Who writes 繲
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
1Classical phrase for washing clothes as livelihood work.
Questions people ask
1Why does 繲 show as a box?
Your font may lack 繲; the box is a fallback, not another character.
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How to type or find 繲
- Search it as
- xie · jie · 治繲 · 洗衣 · zhuangzi · 莊子
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
繲CSS
\7E72Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
繲
HTML hex
繲
CSS content
content: "\7E72";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%B9%B2
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.