What 锨 means
A shovel with a broad, nearly square head. A Ming agricultural manual specifies iron 锨 for soil, wooden 锨 for grain, and an iron-edged wooden form for trimming field ridges.
An older dictionary describes 杴 as a kind of 鍬, another digging tool. A Kangxi-era dictionary preserves two older notes: 杴 as a water-draining tool, and an account of a rhythmic regional dance using long-handled wooden 杴.
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1Questions people ask
1Why does 锨 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 锨
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9528, then Alt+X to get 锨.
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-9528”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9528, then Enter or Space.
HTML
锨CSS
\9528Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
锨
HTML hex
锨
CSS content
content: "\9528";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%94%A8
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.