What 疢 means
It names heat-related illness, later broadened to disease or suffering. The early Chinese dictionary 說文解字 links its illness component with fire. As of 2026-09-11, its earliest secure written witness is the poem 小弁 in the Shijing collection, conventionally dated c. 1000–600 BCE.
疢如疾首 compares grief to a headache; 美疢不如惡石 warns against pleasant harm. The Japanese traditional-medicine text title 百疢一貫 also contains 疢.
Classical Chinese, with literary and medical-text uses.
Who writes 疢
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Questions people ask
1Why does 疢 look different?
It can. As of 2026-09-11, device and browser fonts could draw 疢 differently without changing its identity.
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How to type or find 疢
- Search it as
- chèn · chen4 · 热病 · 疢疾 · 疹
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\75A2How to type 疢
On a Chinese Pinyin keyboard, enter chen4 or chèn, then select 疢 from the results.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
疢
HTML hex
疢
CSS content
content: "\75A2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%96%A2
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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.