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绪

cjk unified ideograph-7eea

Chinese character 绪

绪 can mean a thread end, a beginning, a clue, or a train of thought; the surrounding word tells you which. In Chinese, it appears in compounds such as 情绪 (emotion), 头绪 (clue), and 思绪 (train of thought).

Text symbol
Also called
緒 · 緖
Search it as
绪 · xù · xu4 · meaning of 绪 · 情绪 · 头绪
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What 绪 means

A thread end branches into beginnings, clues, and thought.

An early form, catalogued as 包2.263, appears in a manuscript from ancient Chu, a Chinese state during the Warring States period; it was found in a Baoshan tomb dated 316 BCE. The Eastern Han dictionary Shuowen defines 緒 as the end of a silk thread; 糸 carries the meaning and 者 the sound.

绪 is simplified; 緒 is traditional, and 緖 is a variant form.

Alone, 绪 leaves several senses open; the compound settles it.

“Emotion” is only one possible sense.

What it means when someone sends it to you

4 readings
情绪
Emotion or mood
头绪
A clue or line of inquiry
思绪
A train of thought or feelings
一切就绪
Everything is in order and ready

Questions people ask

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Why does 绪 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 绪

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7EEA, then Alt+X to get 绪.
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-7eea”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7eea, then Enter or Space.
HTML
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CSS
\7EEA
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HTML decimal
绪
HTML hex
绪
CSS content
content: "\7EEA";
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URL encoded
%E7%BB%AA
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On screen
1
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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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