What 鏊 means
A traditional griddle for flatbreads and thin pancakes.
In the Neolithic period, a three-legged, soot-marked pottery disk cooked food over heat. By the Song dynasty, 《广韵》 recorded 餅鏊. Pottery later gave way to bronze and iron, but the job stayed: heat dough or batter, then lift the sheet.
In a 2023 Shandong account, 鏊子 remains tied to regional jianbing, not every pan. 鏊砚 is a Song-dynasty inkstone shaped like it; Ming-dynasty 鏊盤上螞蟻 means restless and unable to settle.
Regional and culinary; outside food contexts, it looks like a rare technical character.
Use it for the griddle, not every pan.
Who writes 鏊
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1Why does 鏊 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 鏊
- Also called
- 鏊子 · 鏊盘
- Search it as
- 鏊砚 · 铁鏊 · 陶鏊 · 烙锅 · 煎饼锅 · griddle
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
鏊\93CACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.