What 乍 means
It marks a first impression or an abrupt change.
Oracle-bone and bronze records show older uses for making. One reading treats 乍 as the source of 作, tied to making clothes; another sees a bent twig used for fences and towns. The origin is debated, but both connect 乍 with making — not “suddenly.”
Modern Mandarin uses 乍 for “at first,” “just now,” or “suddenly”; Japanese dictionaries also record 乍ら “while” and 乍ち “suddenly.” Fonts may draw this CJK character differently.
Who writes 乍
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What it means when someone sends it to you
5 readingsFirst impression.
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
1Questions people ask
1Why does 乍 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 乍
- Search it as
- zha · zha4 · zhà · suddenly · initially · 乍看
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
乍\4E4DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.