What 鄎 means
鄎 names an ancient state and, in some records, a place.
The state belonged to the Ji clan, the ruling family of Zhou-era China, and lay in the Huai River region of what is now Henan. Dictionaries also record 鄎 for a separate place on the southern edge of the state of Qi during the Spring-and-Autumn period, an era of early Chinese history.
Why do histories write 息 for 鄎?
Transmitted histories usually write the state as 息; inscriptions preserve 鄎.
The 鄎子行 inscription is on a bronze food basin from the mid-Spring-and-Autumn period. It names its maker as 鄎子行. A 2023 study suggests the maker belonged to the former ruling family after the state was conquered by the neighboring state of Chu around 680 BCE; it allows that he may himself have been the former ruler.
How can I type 鄎?
Try both Mandarin readings in a pinyin input method.
Dictionaries give xì and xī, so switch readings if the character is missing from the candidates. Hexadecimal entry is a desktop fallback.
Historical and specialized: it marks an old place or state in character dictionaries, inscriptions, and history writing.
For the ancient state, 息 is usual in received histories; use 鄎 when an inscription or dictionary preserves it.
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1Can 鄎 look different in different fonts?
Yes. Han fonts can draw the same encoded character with locale-specific details; a different glyph shape alone does not change its Unicode identity.
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- Also called
- 息 · 鄎國 · 息國
- Search it as
- 鄎 meaning · ancient Xi state · 鄎 · 鄎子行 · bronze inscription · xì · xī
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
鄎\910ECodes and encoding1 code points
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