What 鎞 means
It can mean a hairpin, comb, or pointed metal tool.
As of 2026-09-12, the earliest attestation recorded for 鎞 is a hairpin gloss in 玉篇, a Chinese dictionary. 說文, another early dictionary, does not include 鎞.
Later lexicons add comb and pointed-tool senses, including a metal instrument for the eye. In the Buddhist phrase 金鎞刮眼膜, that instrument scrapes a film from the eye; Buddhist commentaries use the image for clearing ignorance.
Classical and specialized vocabulary; the visible form can vary by font.
Alone, 鎞 gives too little context to identify which historical sense is meant.
Who writes 鎞
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 鎞 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 鎞
- Search it as
- bī · pī · hairpin · comb · eye instrument · arrowhead · plowshare
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
鎞\939ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.