What 勲 means
勲 means meritorious service, achievement, or an honor rank.
A late Warring States bronze inscription has an ancestor form, 勛. An early dictionary glosses it as accomplishing the king’s work.
By 712, the Kojiki preface, an early Japanese chronicle, used 勲五等 for an honor rank. As of 2026, official Japanese honors use 勲章 and 文化勲章.
Formal Japanese usage for service, achievement, and official honors.
勲 means merit; the decoration is 勲章.
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Who writes 勲
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-52F3
勲 vs 勳: 勳 is the older Japanese form; the meaning is the same.
CJK Unified Ideograph-52Db
勛 is a historical Chinese form. Taiwan’s Ministry of Education 2024 dictionary treats it as standard and 勳 as a variant.
CJK Unified Ideograph-52Cb
勋 is the simplified Chinese form corresponding to traditional 勳.
Combination ideas
3Japanese order or decoration.
Distinguished service or achievement.
Conferral of an official honor.
Questions people ask
1Why does 勲 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 勲
- Search it as
- 勲 meaning · くん · いさお · 勳 · 勛 · 勋 · 勲章 · 勲功
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\52F2Japanese input
To type 勲 with Japanese keyboard input, enter くん and choose 勲 from the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
勲
HTML hex
勲
CSS content
content: "\52F2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%8B%B2
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On screen
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Code points
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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.