What 涪 means
It names the Fu River. The Eastern Han Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, defines 涪 as a river. 氵 marks water; 咅 gives the sound. This geographic use appears in 涪江.
Why does 涪 appear in river and place names?
It links the river with regional place names. 涪陵 and 涪州 use the character in place names. A Chongqing municipal account in 2024 lists several explanations for 涪陵's origin, so no single origin is settled.
Geographic: surrounding characters distinguish the river and place names.
Who writes 涪
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 涪 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 涪
- Search it as
- 涪江 · 涪陵 · 涪州 · 涪 character · 涪 meaning · 涪 pronunciation · fú · fu2
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
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HTML
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\6DAAHow do you pronounce and type 涪?
Mandarin Pinyin: fú (like English “foo,” with a rising tone); enter fú in a Chinese IME. Cangjie: 水卜廿口.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
涪
HTML hex
涪
CSS content
content: "\6DAA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E6%B6%AA
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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.