What 绀 means
Deep blue with a red or purple cast.
The Analects, an early Chinese sayings collection, mentions 紺 in a dress rule. The Shuowen Jiezi dictionary, submitted in 121 CE, defines it as deep-blue silk tinged red. A third-century Wei record lists 紺青 and 紺地 brocade as gifts to Himiko, ruler of Japan.
Modern Chinese uses 绀 for blue-black or blue-purple shades. Japanese 紺 came to mean deep navy; a 10th-century literary example and commercial 紺染 evidence from 1349 mark that use.
Who writes 绀
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Questions people ask
1Why does 绀 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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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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\7EC0How to type 绀
A Chinese pinyin keyboard turns Mandarin spellings typed in Latin letters into characters: enter
gan4 and select 绀; traditional output is 紺.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
绀
HTML hex
绀
CSS content
content: "\7EC0";
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URL encoded
%E7%BB%80
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On screen
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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.