What 壤 means
Soft soil first; land or territory in compounds.
The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, analyzes 土 as the meaning part and 襄 as the sound part.
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Who writes 壤
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsSoil or earth.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 壤 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 壤
- Search it as
- rang · rǎng · 土壤 · 接壤 · 天壤之別 · 壤土 · soil · land
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
壤CSS
\58E4Mandarin pinyin
Type rang in a Mandarin pinyin input method and choose 壤; 土壤 narrows the candidate list.
Japanese input method
A reading search may suggest 壌; use its character list when you need this exact older form, 壤.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
壤
HTML hex
壤
CSS content
content: "\58E4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%A3%A4
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.