What 諸 means
No: 諸 is an old form of 諸. It survives as a compatibility glyph, not a separate Japanese word. Both carry the senses “various” and “many,” sometimes “all.”
In compounds, the Japanese element もろ can mean “both,” “many/all,” or “together.” The word もろもろ means many varied things.
The Chinese character dictionary Shuowen Jiezi records 諸. A Japanese dictionary cites an early example of もろもろ in the Buddhist Footprint Song, written 毛呂毛呂 around 753; that dates the word’s history, not this computer-era glyph.
Why does Unicode keep a separate copy?
To preserve older Japanese character data during conversion. IBM’s Japanese kanji data included this distinct entry, so conversion back to older encodings could preserve the source character rather than treat it as another word.
Japanese fonts can render 諸 and 諸 almost identically, so appearance alone may not reveal which code point is stored.
A specialized legacy form: using it signals that the source’s exact character encoding matters.
Text normalization can replace 諸 with 諸 and erase the encoded distinction.
Who writes 諸
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Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
2Questions people ask
2Will normalization keep 諸 distinct?
No. Unicode normalization can map this compatibility character to 諸, erasing the code-point distinction even when the source font displayed a different shape.
Can a font show which character it is?
No. Han glyphs vary with font coverage and language setting; when the code point matters, appearance is not enough.
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How to type or find 諸
- Search it as
- 諸 · 諸 諸 · 諸 old form · 諸 variant · FA22 · JIS X 0213 · IBM kanji · もろもろ
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
諸\FA22Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.