What 誠 means
It means sincerity or honesty, expressed by 誠. Mandarin reads 誠 chéng; Japanese readings include sei and makoto. Korean reads it seong in Hanja, the Chinese characters used in Korean. Simplified Chinese writes 誠 as 诚.
An Eastern Han Chinese dictionary, Shuowen Jiezi, glossed 誠 with 信, meaning “trustworthiness.” This variant is sourced to Plane 6 of Taiwan’s CNS 11643-1992. Unicode keeps such forms so text can be converted to and from that character set without losing its source form.
Who writes 誠
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Questions people ask
1Can software keep this glyph distinction?
Yes. Unicode defines U8AA0 UFE00—誠 followed by a variation selector, a code point requesting a particular glyph—for this variant. Canonical normalization can otherwise rewrite 誠 as 誠.
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- 2f9cf · 誠 · 8aa0 · 誠 variant · cns 11643
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
誠\2F9CFCodes and encoding1 code points
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