What 缫 means
It means reeling silk, not silk itself.
You will meet 缫 in 缫丝, the cocoon-to-raw-silk process of softening cocoons, drawing the filament, and winding it.
缫 is the simplified form; 繅 is the traditional form of the same character.
Technical or literary Chinese; normally written as 缫丝.
It names reeling, not silk.
Who writes 缫
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Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
1Reeling raw silk from cocoons.
Questions people ask
1Why does 缫 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 缫
- Also called
- 繅
- Search it as
- 缫丝 · sao · 缫车 · 缫丝机 · 抽丝
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
缫CSS
\7F2Bhow to type 缫
Type sao and pick 缫, or copy it from the palette above.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
缫
HTML hex
缫
CSS content
content: "\7F2B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%BC%AB
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On screen
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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.