What 久 means
Its origin is unclear; its duration sense is ancient. One traditional account links its shape to moxibustion, a heat treatment. A late Warring States to Qin text uses 久 for duration, but does not prove its first appearance.
In Japanese, kana syllables く (hiragana) and ク (katakana) derive from 久; 乆 is a recorded variant.
Formal in 久仰.
久 alone does not mean “long time no see.”
Who writes 久
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsLong-held admiration; a first-meeting courtesy.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 久 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 久
- Search it as
- jiu · jiǔ · kyuu · hisashiburi · 久しぶり · 久仰
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\4E45Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\4E45";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E4%B9%85
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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.