What 釞 means
It denotes a sharp metal implement. The earliest named dictionary source is the Yupian, a Chinese character dictionary first compiled in 543 and revised later. A 2024 Taiwan Ministry of Education dictionary says 釞 is absent from Shuowen, an earlier Chinese character dictionary.
Chinese dictionaries connect 釞 with 銛 in the sharp metal tool sense, and Japanese references also retain the gloss “sharp.” A 2025 Vietnamese Hán-Nôm dictionary, covering characters used in Vietnamese writing, records 釞 for nhíp, the Vietnamese word for tweezers.
Without context, 釞 reads like a dictionary lookup or a font test, not a familiar chat reaction.
Do not assume the sender means “tweezers”; that is a Vietnamese use.
Who writes 釞
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 釞 show as a box?
Your font or app cannot display its glyph. The encoded character is still 釞; use a font or app with the needed CJK coverage.
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How to type or find 釞
- Search it as
- zhi · zhí · sharp · tweezers · nhip · nhíp · surudoi · needle
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
釞\91DECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.