What 繻 means
Think silk first; the pass is history.
Old dictionaries gloss 繻 as colored silk, and Han commentary describes the silk pass as writing split in two so the halves matched at the checkpoint.
In an entry from 721 BCE, 紀裂繻 appears as a personal name in the Spring and Autumn record. Later 終軍棄繻 turned discarding the return pass into shorthand for youthful resolve.
Unicode fixes the character 繻, not one font drawing: fonts can differ in details without changing the character.
Historical, literary, or textile-specific; not a casual chat character.
If it arrives alone, ask for context instead of guessing.
Who writes 繻
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Questions people ask
1Why does 繻 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 繻
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- xu · ru · shusu · satin · silk · textile · fabric · pass
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
繻\7E7BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.