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錍

cjk unified ideograph-930d

Chinese character 錍

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In historical Chinese, 錍 names an axe, arrowhead, plow blade, vessel, or hairpin. In 金剛錍 (“Diamond Scalpel”), the tool symbolizes Buddhist teaching that cuts through ignorance. Alone, 錍 has no single safe gloss.

Text symbol

What 錍 means

Context decides which object. A late-Warring-States bronze inscription names a vessel; the Han-era character dictionary 說文解字 glosses 鈭錍 as a short axe.

Other texts use 錍 for an arrowhead, plow blade, or hairpin.

What does 錍 mean in 金剛錍?

It names a blade in the title. 金剛錍 is a Tang-period Chinese Buddhist treatise; “Diamond Scalpel” frames Buddhist teaching as cutting through ignorance.

Classical and specialist.

Without context, 錍 has no single safe sense.

Who writes 錍

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Questions people ask

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Why does 錍 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 錍

Search it as
鈚 · 鎞 · 錍箭 · 金剛錍 · short axe · arrowhead · plow blade · bronze vessel
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 930D, then AltX to get 錍.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-930d”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 930d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
錍
CSS
\930D
Cangjie
Enter CHWJ in a Cangjie input method.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
錍
HTML hex
錍
CSS content
content: "\930D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%8C%8D
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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