What 岊 means
It marks a high mountain’s corner. Traditional analysis joins 山 (“mountain”) with 卪, which hints at sound, to picture a mountain “joint.”
Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, glosses it as a high mountain’s corner. Poet Zuo Si later uses 岊 for mountain terrain. The Eight Min Gazetteer, a regional place-name record, lists 石岊; a Japanese-Chinese dictionary records 白岊 in Shaanxi.
Literary, geographic; a lone 岊 needs context.
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Who writes 岊
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Questions people ask
1Why does 岊 show as a box?
The font may lack 岊. A Taiwan reference noted in 2024 that Windows 10 and later included its default glyph.
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How to type or find 岊
- Search it as
- jie character · 岊 meaning · mountain bend · 石岊 · 白岊
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
岊CSS
\5C8ACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
岊
HTML hex
岊
CSS content
content: "\5C8A";
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URL encoded
%E5%B2%8A
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
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