What 敬 means
It preserves one source character form.
Taiwan’s CNS 11643:1992 character set places it at T6-4957 in plane 6 and maps it to 敬. This source variant lets character data round-trip.
Bronze inscriptions show the older form 茍 behind 敬, expressing solemn respect; the early Chinese character dictionary Shuowen glosses 敬 as “solemn.” Later bamboo texts sometimes borrowed 敬 by sound for “warn” or “stay on guard.” In Mandarin, 敬 means respect and appears in polite offerings such as 敬茶. Japanese reads it kei/uyamau; Korean Hanja reads it gyeong.
Who writes 敬
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Questions people ask
1Why does 敬 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 敬
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- 敬 · 2f8c9 · 敬 variant · 敬 unicode · 敬︀
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
敬\2F8C9Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.