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秩

cjk unified ideograph-79e9

秩

秩 means order or sequence, especially in the Chinese compound 秩序. It can also mean rank or a ten-year span; language and subject help determine which sense fits.

Text symbol
Search it as
zhi · zhì · chitsu · order · rank · stipend · decade · 秩序
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 秩 means

Language and topic decide the sense. Chinese 秩序 means “order”; mathematics uses 秩 for matrix rank. Japanese uses include rank and official pay; examples dated 729 and 868 refer to pay and time in office. If 秩 appears alone, check its language and nearby words.

Shuowen, an Eastern Han dictionary, glosses 秩 as “to accumulate.” Traditional analysis links 禾 with grain and treats 失 as the sound component. A bronze inscription transcribed as 秩秩 has a disputed reading and vessel date as of 2026.

Questions people ask

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Why does 秩 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.

How to type 秩

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 79E9, then Alt+X to get 秩.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-79e9”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 79e9, then Enter or Space.
HTML
秩
CSS
\79E9
Mandarin Pinyin
To type 秩 with Mandarin Pinyin, enter zhi in an input method and choose 秩.
Wubi
Enter TRWY in a Wubi input method.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
秩
HTML hex
秩
CSS content
content: "\79E9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%A7%A9
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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