What 乓 means
It writes the pong in ping-pong. 乓 is pronounced pāng in Mandarin Chinese and imitates a sharp hit. A Ming-era novel, Journey to the West (西游记), uses 乒乓 for bricks and tiles clattering, and later battle writing repeats 乒乒乓乓 for cannon-like noise.
Modern Chinese also uses 乒乓 for table tennis, short for 乒乓球. 乓 is not an emoji; it is a typed character your font draws, and it almost never stands alone.
Lone 乓 looks unfinished; write 乒乓 or 乒乓球 for the sport.
Do not send lone 乓 when you mean table tennis.
Who writes 乓
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Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
2Knock or clatter; the word for table tennis.
Repeated clatter of striking objects.
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How to type or find 乓
- Search it as
- pang · pāng · pong · pingpong · 乒乓 · 乒乓球 · 乒乒乓乓
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
乓CSS
\4E53Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
乓
HTML hex
乓
CSS content
content: "\4E53";
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URL encoded
%E4%B9%93
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JS .length
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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.