What 察 means
Close attention is the connecting idea.
An inscription on a late Western Zhou bronze vessel uses 察 in a personal name; Warring States bamboo slips use it for noticing and inspection. On bronze, 察 pairs 宀 (“roof”) with 㣇, a part that hints at pronunciation; the later seal-script form, an older formal style, uses 祭 in that role. The Han dynasty dictionary Shuowen Jiezi glosses 察 as “cover”; later commentary links 宀 with examining beneath a cover.
Who writes 察
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 察 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 察
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- cha · satsu · sassuru · 观察 · 察觉 · 察する · 察 vs 查
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\5BDFHow to type 察
On a Mandarin Pinyin keyboard, enter cha (chá) and select 察 from the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
察
HTML hex
察
CSS content
content: "\5BDF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%AF%9F
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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.