What 喻 means
The whole word tells you what 喻 means. In 比喻, the focus is comparison; 不言而喻 describes something obvious without being said; 家喻户晓 describes something known in every household.
In a 2024 Taiwan Ministry of Education entry, 喻 is absent from Shuowen, an early Chinese dictionary. Three classical Chinese works—the Analects, Xunzi, and Mencius—use it for telling, understanding, and analogy.
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Who writes 喻
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 喻 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 喻
- Search it as
- yù · yu · 喩 · 諭
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
喻CSS
\55BBPinyin / Cangjie
To type 喻 with Mandarin Pinyin, enter yu and select 喻 from the candidates. If available in your Chinese input method, enter the Cangjie sequence 口人一弓.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
喻
HTML hex
喻
CSS content
content: "\55BB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%96%BB
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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.