What 胝 means
It names a callus: skin hardened by friction or pressure.
Chinese uses 胼胝 for callused skin linked to farming, service, or hardship. The compound appears in Warring States writing; the Eastern Han dictionary Shuowen glosses 胝 with 腄.
In 胼手胝足, callused hands and feet stand for hard labor and endurance. 胼胝体 names the corpus callosum, the nerve bundle connecting the brain's halves. Japanese also uses 胼胝 for a callus, read たこ.
Who writes 胝
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Questions people ask
1Why does 胝 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 胝
- Search it as
- 胝 · callus · 胼胝 · 胼手胝足 · 胼胝体 · zhī · たこ
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\80DD胝 pronunciation
Mandarin starts with a tongue-curled, ch-like sound and a high, level tone; Pinyin writes it zhī. Type
zhi and choose 胝.Cangjie input
On a Cangjie Chinese keyboard, enter 月竹心一.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
胝
HTML hex
胝
CSS content
content: "\80DD";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%83%9D
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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
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.