What 烬 means
It means what remains after a fire. 灰烬 is ash or cinders; 余烬 is embers.
A pre-Qin (before China’s Qin dynasty) poem, 《诗经·大雅·桑柔》, from an ancient Chinese poetry collection, uses 烬 for people devastated by calamity.
Literary and bleak; 灰烬 and 余烬 read more naturally than bare 烬.
Alone, 烬 can sound like aftermath, not warmth.
Who writes 烬
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Ash or cinders; the literal compound.
Embers, or what remains after disaster.
Remnants after calamity; literary.
Questions people ask
1Why does 烬 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 烬
- Search it as
- 烬 · 烬 meaning · 烬 燼 · 灰烬 · 余烬 · 烬余 · jin · ashes
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
烬CSS
\70ECMandarin pinyin
On a Chinese input method using Mandarin pinyin, type jin and choose 烬.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
烬
HTML hex
烬
CSS content
content: "\70EC";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%83%AC
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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.