What 軝 means
It was the leather binding on a chariot’s long hub. An early form is associated with a bronze inscription on the vessel 叔䟒父卣 from the early Western Zhou period in ancient China.
The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, describes the hub as bound and reddened; the Classic of Poetry, an early Chinese poetry collection, places the fitting beside a patterned axle beam and ringing bells.
The Han-era wordbook 方言, attributed to Yang Xiong, also records “wheel” as a regional sense in Han and Chu speech. The documented variant 䡋 is a related written form. Shuowen also records a form written with 革, the Chinese character meaning leather.
It belongs to classical writing and dictionaries; alone in a chat, read it as a reference to the character unless context says otherwise.
A square in place of 軝 means your font lacks the glyph; it does not change the character in the text.
Who writes 軝
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Questions people ask
1Why does 軝 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 軝
- Search it as
- 軝 · qí · qi · ki · 䡋 · wheel hub · chariot hub · chariot wheel
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
軝\8EDDCodes and encoding1 code points
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