What 切 means
It means “cut” or “slice,” like 切. The underlying character is ancient: it appears in early Chinese oracle-bone inscriptions (writing carved on bones), bronze inscriptions, and later seal script, a formal writing style. 切 itself is a much later standards-era duplicate, not the ancient form.
KS X 1001, a Korean character set, assigned duplicate entries to some Hanja (Chinese-origin characters used in Korean) for different Korean readings. Its source entry is labeled K0-746E. Unicode retained the duplicate so conversion back to that older set can preserve which entry appeared in the original. As of 2026, some fonts may not show 切, and others may draw a different regional Han glyph.
Technical or archival: it marks an older Korean character-set entry or a need to preserve that exact source distinction.
Who writes 切
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 切 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Compatibility Ideographs 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 切
- Search it as
- fa00 · u+fa00 · 切 · 切 · korean hanja · korean compatibility ideograph
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
切\FA00Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.