What 葬 means
It describes burying the dead. Chinese 埋葬 means burial. In Japanese, 葬式 and 葬儀 mean funeral; 葬る can also mean hiding a problem or ruining someone's standing.
Oracle-bone forms of 葬 show a person or bones in a pit; others combine 死 (“death”) or 歺 (“bones”) with 爿, a bed sign that also gives sound. Ancient funerary practice tied burial to mourning, ancestors, and rank.
Alone, 葬 reads as blunt death language, not automatic condolence.
A bare 葬 can sound like death, not comfort.
Questions people ask
1Why does 葬 look different in fonts?
Device fonts can alter its shape; the character remains the same.
How to type 葬
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 846C, then Alt+X to get 葬.
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-846c”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 846c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
葬CSS
\846CCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
葬
HTML hex
葬
CSS content
content: "\846C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%91%AC
1
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.