What 庞 means
Size is the core idea; the word around 庞 can steer its sense.
The character appears in oracle-bone inscriptions—writing carved on animal bones and turtle shells. The early Chinese character dictionary 说文解字 glosses its Small Seal form, an early standardized script, as “high house.” 广 suggests a building; 龙 is a sound component, not the meaning “dragon.”
The compounds 庞大 and 庞杂 use it for great size and a disorderly mix; in 脸庞, it means a face.
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Who writes 庞
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Combination ideas
3Large or substantial in scale.
A numerous, disorderly mix.
A face or facial appearance.
Questions people ask
1Why does 庞 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 庞
- Search it as
- páng · pang · 龐 · 庞大 · 庞杂 · 脸庞
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
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\5E9ECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\5E9E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%BA%9E
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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.