What 岷 means
It names a mountain and its river. The ancient Chinese geography text Yu Gong names 岷山; its date is disputed. Older dictionaries place the mountain in Shu, an ancient region near present-day Sichuan.
岷江 names the river. Dujiangyan, built around 256 BCE, is an irrigation and flood-control system on it.
Why does 岷 sometimes appear as 汶?
汶 appears in historical river names. The river is called 岷江; historical names include 汶水, 汶江, and 都江.
Geographic-name use in Chinese, especially for the Min mountain and river.
Who writes 岷
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Questions people ask
1Why does 岷 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 岷
- Search it as
- min · 岷江 · 岷山 · 汶江 · 汶水 · 岷州
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
岷CSS
\5CB7Pinyin
On a Chinese Pinyin keyboard (Chinese sounds written in Latin letters), type
min; minjiang narrows the list to 岷江.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
岷
HTML hex
岷
CSS content
content: "\5CB7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%B2%B7
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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.