What 珊 means
珊 is used for coral, most familiarly in 珊瑚.
The Han-era 說文解字 dictionary describes 珊瑚 as red coral from the sea or mountains. By the Former Han period, Chinese records already treated coral as valuable. 玉 is the jade-and-stone component, 冊 supplies the sound, and 瑚 completes 珊瑚.
Why does 珊 vary between fonts?
The drawing can vary while the character stays the same.
As of 2026, some Chinese and Japanese fonts show its right side as 冊 or 册; both forms represent 珊.
Japanese lists 珊 among kanji for personal names. Dictionaries also record サンチ, a phonetic rendering of the French word for “centimeter.”
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1Why does 珊 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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- 珊瑚 · 珊珊 · 珊 Japanese name · さんご
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