What 苯 means
It names benzene in Chinese chemical writing.
Chinese benzene names competed in the 19th century. A 1908 structure-based proposal used 轮质; in 1932–33, standards adopted sound-based characters with the grass component 艹 for aromatic compounds such as 苯.
A poem from the Tang dynasty, an imperial era in China, uses 苯䔿 for dense plant growth. In compounds, 苯 is the benzene root.
Technical; in ordinary writing, it signals chemistry.
Who writes 苯
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3benzene ring
toluene
phenol
Questions people ask
1Why does 苯 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 苯
- Search it as
- benzene · ben · 苯环 · 笨
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
苯CSS
\82EFChinese Pinyin
With a Chinese Pinyin input method, type ben and select 苯 from the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
苯
HTML hex
苯
CSS content
content: "\82EF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%8B%AF
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On screen
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Code points
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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.