What 謹 means
It means careful, respectful restraint, like 謹.
In Japanese, 謹 is an old-form kanji and compatibility form of 謹. Its structure uses 言 for words or speech and 堇 as the sound-bearing part. Classical Chinese also records a verb sense: strictly prohibit.
An early form appears on a bronze inscription from the late Spring-and-Autumn period of ancient China; Qin-era writing slips (narrow strips used for records), then small-seal and clerical writing styles, show the graph's evolution. In Japan, 謹啓 is a formal letter opening meaning “respectfully, I write,” recorded around the 11th century. 謹賀新年 is a formal New Year greeting; 謹慎 means self-restraint.
Why does 謹 become 謹?
It preserves a Japanese legacy encoding form.
The Unicode mapping ties 謹 to JIS X 0213, a Japanese character standard, and maps source glyph J3-7C30 to 謹. This lets legacy text round-trip without losing its recorded form; 謹 adds no separate meaning.
Depending on the font, 謹 may look like 謹 or have a different design. Normalization can also rewrite it as 謹. Keep the exact character through processing when reproducing a source; ordinary modern Japanese uses 謹.
In Japanese writing, 謹 looks old-style or source-preserving; 謹 is the ordinary modern choice.
Treating the two as interchangeable can erase an original source distinction.
Who writes 謹
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
2Why did my text change from 謹 to 謹?
Normalization can rewrite 謹 as 謹 during processing. Compare the saved text's code points before and after an import or export if the source distinction matters.
Can I use 謹 in ordinary Japanese writing?
Usually, use 謹 in modern Japanese prose. Keep 謹 when reproducing a source that contains it or when its exact typographic form is required.
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How to type or find 謹
- Search it as
- 謹 · FA63 · U+FA63 · 謹 · 謹 謹 · old form of 謹 · Japanese compatibility character · 謹啓
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
謹\FA63\uFA63 produces 謹; 謹 is a different code point.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.