What 錿 means
No settled gloss is recorded. A Chinese character reference checked on 2026-10-08 records the Mandarin reading hǔ but marks the meaning unclarified. Treat hǔ as a reading, not a translation.
Works from the Liao, Northern Song, Ming, and Qing periods preserve 錿 in medical, musical, personal-name, and local-record contexts. Those entries show where it appears, not a single meaning shared by every occurrence.
Archival; outside a historical source, it reads as unexplained text.
Don't use it as 虎 (“tiger”); its recorded reading and component structure do not establish that meaning.
Questions people ask
1Why does 錿 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 錿
錿\933FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.
