What 臭 means
Bad smell; figuratively, something bad.
Its recognizable ancestor appears in Shang-period oracle-bone inscriptions, early records carved on bone and shell. Traditional analysis reads 自 (“nose”) with 犬 (“dog”) as a sniffing image; later senses include odor, decay, and bad reputation.
JIS X 0213, a Japanese character standard, preserves 臭 as an older form of 臭; modern Japanese uses 臭.
In Japanese text, it marks an older or exact-form choice.
Who writes 臭
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Questions people ask
1Will Unicode normalization preserve 臭?
No. Unicode normalization standardizes equivalent characters, mapping 臭 to 臭 and erasing its exact form.
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How to type or find 臭
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- 臭 · old form of 臭 · smell kanji · kyujitai
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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臭CSS
\FA5CCodes and encoding1 code points
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CSS content
content: "\FA5C";
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%EF%A9%9C
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