What 錡 means
A classical metal vessel or cutting tool. Dictionaries also record weapon, crossbow-stand, and surname senses for qi.
As of 2026, no single inventor or first inscription is defensible here; transmitted Classic of Poetry passages pair it with an axe and with a pot. With 斧, read the tool or weapon sense; with 釜, read cookware.
The traditional form pairs 金 for metal with 奇 for sound. In simplified Chinese it is written 锜.
Classical and technical; expect it in a quotation, historical text, name, or specialist reference.
A lone 錡 does not mean cauldron: tool and weapon senses also exist.
Who writes 錡
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 錡 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.
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How to type or find 錡
- Also called
- 锜
- Search it as
- qi · qí · cauldron · chisel
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
錡\9321Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.