What 锼 means
It names carving into a surface, or wearing it away.
In the Western Han, the poet Wang Bao’s rhapsody 《洞箫赋》 describes ivory fitted to a xiao, a Chinese end-blown flute, then decorated with carving. The compound 锼镂 names that craft step.
A Tang poem by Li He uses 锼 for insects eating into an old willow. Chinese dictionaries also record an iron-rust noun sense: the word covers deliberate cuts and material being eaten away.
Don't confuse it with
2Combination ideas
3Carving or cutting a design into a surface.
Engraving or decorating a surface; a recorded craft compound.
Eroding or gnawing into something, especially wood.
Questions people ask
1Does 搜 mean the same as 锼?
No. 搜 means “search” and shares Mandarin sōu with 锼; 锼 is the carving character. A Pinyin keyboard may offer both when you enter `sou`.
How to type 锼
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 953C, then Alt+X to get 锼.
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-953c”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 953c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
锼CSS
\953CHow to type 锼
On a Chinese Pinyin keyboard, enter `sou` and choose 锼 from the candidates; several characters can share that pronunciation.
If the glyph is missing
Use a CJK font that includes the character; a blank box means the font lacks its glyph, not that the text changed.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
锼
HTML hex
锼
CSS content
content: "\953C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%94%BC
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On screen
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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.