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cjk unified ideograph-9513

Chinese character 锓

18196/20992

锓 means “to carve”; in bookmaking it names the woodcutting step that makes a printing block. It survives chiefly in terms such as 锓梓 and 锓枣, and 鋟 is its traditional form. Alone, it reads more like a rare-character reference than a chat reaction.

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What 锓 means

It is a verb for cutting words or designs into wood.

A classical witness appears in the Gongyang Commentary, an old commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals: it says Yang Hu 鋟其板, cutting his warning into a board.

In later bookmaking vocabulary, 锓梓 means carving and printing from catalpa wood; 锓枣 means the same work with jujube wood. The woodblock printing workflow explains the shift: a page was transferred to wood, carved, inked, and pressed onto paper.

How did carving become a printing term?

Woodblock printing made carving part of publishing.

The woodblock printing workflow turned the carved board into a reusable page: the raised surface held ink and transferred the text onto paper.

Dictionaries record Japanese readings セン, チン, and きざむ, Korean 침, and Vietnamese xăm for 鋟. As of 2026, it has no established chat or slang meaning.

Why does 锓 appear as 鋟?

鋟 is the traditional form; 锓 is the simplified form.

Fonts and script settings can change the displayed outline without changing which character the text represents.

Rare and bookish; use it for classical or bibliographic carving and printing, not as an everyday replacement for 刻 or 雕刻.

Sent alone, it can look like a typo or a vocabulary question.

Who writes 锓

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Combination ideas

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Carve and print from a catalpa-wood block.
Carve and print from a jujube-wood block.
Carve a board as a printing block.

Questions people ask

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Is 锓 used in everyday Chinese?

Usually not; it appears chiefly in classical or bookmaking terms. For ordinary writing, 刻 or 雕刻 says “carve” more plainly.

Why does 锓 appear as 鋟?

They are the same word in simplified and traditional Chinese writing: 锓 is simplified, and 鋟 is traditional.

Can I send 锓 by itself?

You can, but without context it reads as a rare-character reference. Add a short explanation if you mean carving or historical printing.

How to type or find 锓

Also called
鋟
Search it as
qin · qin3 · qǐn · carve · engrave · woodblock printing · 锓梓 · 锓枣
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 9513, then AltX to get 锓.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-9513”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 9513, then Enter or Space.
HTML
锓
CSS
\9513
Mandarin pinyin
To type 锓, enter qin3 (third tone) in a Mandarin pinyin input method, then select it from the candidates.
Traditional Chinese
With Traditional Chinese selected, choose 鋟 as the corresponding form.
Fallback
If pinyin candidates do not show it, try handwriting, stroke input, or a character lookup.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
锓
HTML hex
锓
CSS content
content: "\9513";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%94%93
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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