What 漢 means
漢 preserves a Japanese source distinction.
The earliest surviving ancestor of 漢 appears on a bronze vessel from early Western Zhou China. Its inscription names the Han River in a campaign record; the vessel was cast for ritual commemoration. By the Han dynasty, 漢 named the dynasty, Han people, and Chinese writing.
JIS X 0213, a Japanese character-set standard, keeps 漢 as source form J3-7725. Han-script fonts may draw it almost like 漢.
Who writes 漢
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 漢 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 漢
- Search it as
- FA47 · hanzi · kanji · hanja · JIS · compatibility ideograph
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
漢CSS
\FA47Hex input
Enter UFA47 with a Unicode hexadecimal input method; ordinary Japanese conversion yields 漢.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
漢
HTML hex
漢
CSS content
content: "\FA47";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EF%A9%87
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.