What 鋺 means
A metal bowl; in weighing, a balance pan. Japanese references read the bowl sense かなまり or まり. Here 金 identifies the metal vessel.
In Japan, museum records place copper bowls of this type in 6th-century contexts, with wider use in the 7th–8th centuries for elite dining, Buddhist offerings and burials. Museum accounts trace the Chinese-style vessel through Baekje, an ancient Korean kingdom, into Japan. Older Chinese dictionaries 玉篇 and 集韻 preserve 鋺; Taiwan's Ministry of Education variant dictionary says, as of 2024, that the earlier Chinese character dictionary 說文解字 does not record it.
Which bowl form fits?
Japanese references distinguish bowl spellings by material, with separate forms for metal, wood and fired ware. Taiwan's Ministry of Education variant dictionary also links 鋺 with 碗, so the Japanese material rule does not govern every Chinese text.
Historical and specialist; reserve it for a literal vessel reference or quoted source text.
Alone, it can look like a typo; ask what vessel or text is meant.
Who writes 鋺
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA literal metal bowl; nearby labels may specify copper or bronze.
Don't confuse it with
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2Questions people ask
1Why does 鋺 look different across fonts?
CJK fonts can draw this Han character with regional stroke differences; a font without 鋺 may show a missing-glyph box.
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How to type or find 鋺
- Also called
- かなまり · まり · kanamari
- Search it as
- 金鋺 · 銅鋺 · 鋺 character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
鋺\92FACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.