What 锷 means
It is the sharpened side of a knife or sword blade.
The Zhuangzi, an early Chinese philosophy book, uses 鍔 beside 锋 for edge and tip. Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, records older 㓵 with the same weapon-part sense.
Japanese references also use 鍔 for blade points, hat brims and kettle rims, and list 鐔 as a variant. A surviving Japanese tsuba dates to ca. 3rd–7th century.
Technical and literary in Chinese; specialist sword vocabulary in Japanese.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsChinese writing about a blade
The cutting edge.
Japanese writing about a sword fitting
The handguard, or tsuba.
Questions people ask
1Why does 锷 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 锷
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 9537, then Alt+X to get 锷.
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-9537”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 9537, then Enter or Space.
HTML
锷CSS
\9537Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
锷
HTML hex
锷
CSS content
content: "\9537";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%94%B7
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.