What 釺 means
It names a metal rod used to bore into rock or soil. In Chinese, 鋼釺 (steel drill rod) and 鐵釺 (iron boring tool) put the material before the tool.
Ming-period texts already use 釺 for a metal tool. Qing-era Sichuan gazetteers describe small and large iron 釺 used to drill salt wells.
Technical in Chinese writing; alone in casual chat, it is hard to interpret confidently without a surrounding word.
Do not substitute 釬; it is a different character.
Who writes 釺
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsA steel boring rod used for rock, soil, or mining.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-948E
The simplified Chinese counterpart of 釺; it carries the same boring-tool meaning.
CJK Unified Ideograph-91D1
金 is the metal radical at the left of 釺, matching the character's metal-tool sense.
CJK Unified Ideograph-5343
千 is the right-hand component; it cues the Chinese reading of 釺, while the tool meaning comes from the whole character.
Combination ideas
2A steel boring rod for rock or soil.
An iron boring rod or mining tool.
Questions people ask
1Why does 釺 appear as a square?
Usually a font issue. A square means the current font or its fallback lacks a glyph for 釺; the text still contains that character.
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How to type or find 釺
- Search it as
- qian · 钎 · 钎子 · 钢钎 · 铁钎 · 炮钎 · 打钎 · Cangjie
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
釺CSS
\91FAChinese Pinyin
Enter qian in a Chinese Pinyin input method; choose 釺 if shown, since some systems offer simplified 钎 first.
Cangjie 5
The Cangjie code for 釺 is CHJ (金竹十), a shape-based sequence for Cangjie 5.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
釺
HTML hex
釺
CSS content
content: "\91FA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%87%BA
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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.