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丼

cjk unified ideograph-4e3c

Donburi character

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丼 names a Japanese serving bowl and the rice dish served in it. In food names, its shorter reading don marks a topped rice dish, as in gyudon. Chinese character records also connect 丼 with 井, “well,” and the sound of something dropped into one.

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What 丼 means

It names a serving bowl and the dish served inside it. The Japanese word donburi was recorded for serving bowls by the late 17th century, including bowls used for foods such as soba, Japanese buckwheat noodles. The Japanese text Mimi Bukuro, dated 1784–1814, gives a food use. Chinese lexicons also record a well-related sense and a sound for an object dropping into a well; how that older history led to the Japanese bowl word is uncertain.

Food use is neutral; the money-related idiom is critical.

In money talk, it means slapdash bookkeeping.

Who writes 丼

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3 readings

A deep serving bowl.

Don't confuse it with

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Combination ideas

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Rice topped with beef.
Rice topped with tempura.
Rice topped with chicken and egg.

Collections with 丼

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How to type or find 丼

Also called
donburi · don
Search it as
gyudon · tendon · katsudon · oyakodon
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 4E3C, then AltX to get 丼.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-4e3c”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 4e3c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
丼
CSS
\4E3C
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
丼
HTML hex
丼
CSS content
content: "\4E3C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E4%B8%BC
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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