What 县 means
It means “county” in Simplified Chinese.
In Chinese place names, it marks the administrative unit.
Related forms appear on Western Zhou bronzes; a late Spring and Autumn inscription is an early administrative example. In Early Qin, counties helped control frontier territory; after Qin unification, they came under commanderies, larger administrative regions. The older Chinese form 縣 also meant “to hang,” linking it to 懸.
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Who writes 县
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Questions people ask
1Why does 县 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 县
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- xian · xian4 · county · district · 縣 · 県
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\53BFSimplified Chinese pinyin
Enter xian in a Simplified Chinese pinyin input method, then select 县.
Traditional Chinese pinyin
Enter xian with a Traditional Chinese input method, then select 縣.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
县
HTML hex
县
CSS content
content: "\53BF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%8E%BF
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On screen
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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.