What 嶂 means
It names a sheer peak pictured as a wall or screen.
Shen Yue, a Chinese poet, used 嶂 in a poem from the late fifth or early sixth century, ending “起青嶂” (“green peaks rise like a screen”). The Han-era dictionary Shuowen Jiezi has no entry; later Chinese dictionaries link it with 障.
In Mandarin, Pinyin gives zhàng (roughly “jahng,” with a falling tone); Cantonese Jyutping gives zoeng3; Japanese dictionaries list しょう (shō, long o) and みね (mi-ne).
A literary, landscape-specific word; alone in casual chat, it may sound formal or opaque.
障 means a barrier; 嶂 names a steep mountain face.
Who writes 嶂
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Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
1Layered mountain ranges and peaks; an established Chinese idiom.
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How to type or find 嶂
- Search it as
- zhàng · zhang4 · zoeng3 · mountain peak · mountain wall · 层峦叠嶂 meaning
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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嶂CSS
\5D82Mandarin Pinyin
Type zhang and select 嶂.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
嶂
HTML hex
嶂
CSS content
content: "\5D82";
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URL encoded
%E5%B6%82
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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.