What 鎼 means
It is a mistaken form of 罅, the Chinese character for a crack or gap.
For 罅, the sense extends from a physical crack or gap to a loophole. The 金 component in 鎼 does not supply a separate metal meaning.
Examples occur across the Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing periods; the oldest indexed citation is from a Tang anthology. In compounds such as 鎼隙 and 鎼漏, 鎼 takes the place of 罅 in words about gaps or omissions. Japanese references gloss 罅 with ひび (“crack”) and すきま (“gap”), while Cantonese references group 鎼 with 罅 under the same pronunciation.
What does 鎼 mean when someone sends it?
Use 罅’s crack-or-gap sense unless the message is quoting 鎼 itself.
If it arrives alone, its intended sense is unclear; ask for context before choosing a translation.
For a new Chinese sentence, choose 罅. Keep 鎼 when transcribing a source exactly, since references label it as a mistaken form.
In a new Chinese sentence, 鎼 reads like a spelling error for 罅; keep it for quotations or exact historical transcription.
The 金 component does not mean “metal” here; it belongs to the mistaken spelling.
Who writes 鎼
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIt points to 罅 but does not tell you whether the crack or gap is literal or a loophole.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 鎼 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 鎼
- Search it as
- 鎼 meaning · 鎼 pronunciation · 鎼 Cangjie · 鎼 keyboard · 罅 · 鏬 · crack · gap
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
鎼\93BCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.