What 鳷 means
The earliest attested use of 鳷 is in Han dynasty texts. Sima Xiangru’s Shanglin Fu, a poem about Emperor Wu’s imperial parks, places 鳷鵲 among the sights. The Han dynasty dictionary Shuowen Jiezi does not list 鳷; later rhyme dictionaries preserve it.
Other records name 鳷鵲觀 outside Ganquan, within the imperial building landscape associated with Emperor Wu’s search for immortals. In older sources, 鳷鵲 is also a bird name, glossed as a jay or an unfamiliar bird. By the Southern Dynasties, 鳷鵲樓 named a pavilion near Nanjing; Later literature uses the name as an allusion to grand or deserted architecture.
What does 鳷 mean by itself?
Alone, 鳷 gives too little context to choose a sense. Its historical uses are tied to old names and compounds; ask for the surrounding line to tell whether the reference is a bird or a place.
Literary and specialist; 鳷 is chiefly preserved in historical compounds and place-names.
Alone, 鳷 does not tell you whether the old reference is a bird or a place.
Who writes 鳷
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What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsA rare character without enough context to choose its historical sense.
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1Why does 鳷 show as a square?
It is a font issue: if the active font lacks the glyph for 鳷, the device shows a missing-character box.
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鳷\9CF7zhi and select 鳷.JEHAF (十水竹日火) in a Cangjie input method.Codes and encoding1 code points
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