What 缯 means
Read 缯 first as silk cloth.
An Eastern Han Shuowen Jiezi entry defines 繒 as silk cloth. 缯 is the simplified form of 繒, labelling cloth and silk goods; Han-era finds show specialized looms and silk moving across Eurasia.
Meanings branch by reading: zēng names the fabric; zèng can mean “bind.” Dictionaries also connect 缯 with 矰, a bird-hunting arrow, and with 帛, a silk-cloth term.
Literary or historical for the silk sense.
Check the reading before treating it as “silk”.
Who writes 缯
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Questions people ask
1Why does 缯 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 缯
- Also called
- 繒 · zēng · zèng
- Search it as
- zeng · silk · bind · arrow
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\7F2FHow do I type 缯?
Type zēng for silk, zèng for “bind.” Choose 繒 for traditional text.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
缯
HTML hex
缯
CSS content
content: "\7F2F";
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URL encoded
%E7%BC%AF
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.