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濯

cjk unified ideograph-6fef

Character for washing

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濯 means “wash” or “rinse”; classical Chinese uses it for moral cleansing. In Japanese, 洗濯 means laundry and 濯ぐ means rinse or figuratively clear disgrace. An early example appears on an early Warring States bronze inscription.

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What 濯 means

The core action is washing with water. Classical texts use it for ritual vessels and in phrases about feet or a cap cord. In Japanese, 汚名を濯ぐ means clear disgrace.

Classical in Chinese phrases; established Japanese laundry vocabulary.

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Who writes 濯

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What it means when someone sends it to you

4 readings

Wash feet; an image of leaving worldly dust.

Don't confuse it with

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Combination ideas

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Japanese laundry.
Clear a tarnished name.

Questions people ask

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Why does 濯 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.

How to type or find 濯

Search it as
zhuo · zhao · wash · rinse · laundry · 洗濯 · 濯ぐ · 濯纓
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 6FEF, then AltX to get 濯.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-6fef”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 6fef, then Enter or Space.
HTML
濯
CSS
\6FEF
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
濯
HTML hex
濯
CSS content
content: "\6FEF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E6%BF%AF
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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.

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