What 稹 means
It describes things growing or packed closely together. The Book of Songs, an early Chinese poetry collection, applies it to clustered plants; Zhouli, a ritual text, uses it for firm wood grain.
Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, defines 稹 as closely packed vegetation: 禾 points to plants; 真 hints at sound.
Literary and descriptive; context matters in casual messages.
Alone, 稹 can leave the intended classical sense unclear.
Who writes 稹
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-79Be
In Shuowen Jiezi, 禾 gives 稹 its plant-related meaning.
CJK Unified Ideograph-771F
Shuowen Jiezi links 真 to 稹’s sound, not its modern reading.
CJK Unified Ideograph-7E1D
Dictionaries connect 稹 and 縝 through a fine-texture sense; they are not alternate spellings.
CJK Unified Ideograph-7F1C
Dictionaries connect 缜 to that sense; it is distinct from 稹.
CJK Unified Ideograph-9B12
Dictionaries compare 鬒 with 稹’s dense-texture sense.
Questions people ask
1Why does 稹 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 稹
- Search it as
- zhěn · zhen3 · 稹字 · dense growth · 縝 · 缜 · 鬒
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
稹CSS
\7A39Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
稹
HTML hex
稹
CSS content
content: "\7A39";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%A8%B9
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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.