What 皎 means
Clear, shining whiteness, especially moonlight.
The pre-Qin Book of Songs, an early Chinese poetry collection, uses 皎 in 月出皎兮 (“the moon rises, bright”). Chinese compounds such as 皎洁 and 皎白 extend the image to pure whiteness. Traditional character analysis treats 白 as its meaning component and 交 as its sound component.
Literary and poetic in Chinese and Japanese; in everyday prose, it sounds deliberately elevated.
Who writes 皎
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-767D
In the traditional analysis of 皎, 白 is the meaning-bearing part, pointing to white or bright.
CJK Unified Ideograph-4Ea4
In that same analysis, 交 supplies the sound; it signals pronunciation, not a second meaning.
CJK Unified Ideograph-7693
A Japanese kanji reference also records 皓 as another writing of 皎. They are related forms, but retain the exact form used in a name or quotation.
Combination ideas
3Reduplication heightens the clear, pure brightness; a classical poetic form.
A bright, clear moon; a compact literary compound.
Clear wind and bright moon, setting a calm moonlit scene.
Questions people ask
1Why does 皎 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 皎
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- jiao · jiao3 · 皎洁 · 皎白 · 皎然 · 皓 · こう · きょう
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
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\768ECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\768E";
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URL encoded
%E7%9A%8E
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On screen
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