What 銼 means
It means a file, or to smooth something with one.
銼刀 names the toothed file or rasp; 銼平 is the verb, to file smooth. Han-era Shuowen Jiezi defines 銼 as 鍑, a broad-mouthed cooking vessel, so the recorded sense moves from vessel to filing tool. As of 2026, no secure pre-Han attestation or single inventor was found in the sources checked. The metal radical plus 坐 phonetic gives the form; simplified Chinese writes 锉.
Technical tool word; 銼刀 makes the modern noun sense clearest.
Do not swap 銼 with 錯: 錯 means “wrong.”
Who writes 銼
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What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsThe modern filing tool.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Will 銼 render like an emoji?
No. It is a font-drawn CJK character, so fonts may draw its strokes differently.
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How to type or find 銼
- Search it as
- 銼 · 锉 · 銼刀 · 锉刀 · file · rasp
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
銼CSS
\92BCCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
銼
HTML hex
銼
CSS content
content: "\92BC";
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URL encoded
%E9%8A%BC
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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
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