What 聰 means
It is 聰 in compatibility form, meaning intelligence or discernment.
Older Chinese texts use 聰 for keen hearing and clear judgment; this form inherits those senses.
Why does Unicode have 聰?
It preserves a source form during character-set conversion.
Taiwan's CNS 11643 is a Chinese-character encoding standard. Unicode's supplement enables round-trip conversion for its 1992 planes 3–7 and 15. The source label TF-5C2D places 聰 in plane 15, a numbered section, of the 2007 edition.
Who writes 聰
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Questions people ask
1Does normalization change 聰?
Yes. Canonical normalization can change 聰 to 聰, removing its separate code point. The original form matters when preserving the source distinction.
How to type or find 聰
- Search it as
- cns · 聰 · taiwan · 2f97f
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
聰\2F97FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

