What 祚 means
Start with blessing; the compound narrows it. Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, glosses 祚 as 福 (“good fortune”), parsing 示 as the ritual component and 乍 as the sound component. The character appears in Warring States Chu manuscripts and later in small-seal script, a formal writing style.
Classical Chinese compounds extend blessing to rulership, dynastic fortune, and lifespan: 踐祚 means accession to the throne; 皇祚, a dynasty’s fortune; 年祚, lifespan. Japanese kanji dictionaries list these senses too.
Formal and literary; chiefly in established compounds and older prose.
Don’t read every 祚 as “throne”: 福祚 means blessing.
Who writes 祚
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 祚 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 祚
- Search it as
- zuò · zuo4 · blessing · throne · 福祚 · 踐祚
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
祚\795ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.