What 纩 means
Fine silk floss or soft wadding for clothing.
The Eastern Han Chinese dictionary Shuowen Jiezi explains 纊: 糸 (silk thread) gives the meaning; 廣 hints at sound. It also lists 絖 as an alternate. Older Chinese texts use 纩 for silk sent as tribute, in 挾纊 for keeping soldiers warm, and in 屬纊, a deathbed breath test using a wisp at the mouth. Later dictionaries also record “cocoon” and “eighty silk strands” as meanings.
Rare literary textile vocabulary; a bare message needs context.
Who writes 纩
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Questions people ask
1Why does 纩 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 纩
- Search it as
- kuang · kuàng · 纊 · 絖 · silk floss
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\7EA9how to type 纩
With Chinese Pinyin input (Mandarin sounds written in Latin letters), enter kuang or kuàng and choose 纩.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\7EA9";
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URL encoded
%E7%BA%A9
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
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