What 蒽 means
蒽 is the Chinese chemical name for anthracene.
Nineteenth-century translations often spelled foreign chemical names out by sound. In 1931, chemist Tu Xunli proposed shorter characters for aromatic compounds, pairing a sound clue with the grass-shaped top 艹; his anthracene proposal was 荌. The principle was accepted in 1932; 蒽 entered standard lists in 1933. Those dates track its chemical name, not the character’s origin.
Who writes 蒽
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-834C
Earlier anthracene name proposal; 蒽 became standard.
CJK Unified Ideograph-82Ef
Chinese name for benzene in the same aromatic naming set.
CJK Unified Ideograph-8418
Chinese name for naphthalene in the same aromatic naming set.
CJK Unified Ideograph-83F2
Chinese name for phenanthrene in the same aromatic naming set.
Combination ideas
2Anthracene oil, a mixture from coal tar.
Anthraquinone, a compound used in dye chemistry.
Questions people ask
1Why does 蒽 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 蒽
- Search it as
- anthracene · 蒽油 · 蒽醌
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
蒽CSS
\84BDChinese Pinyin
Type
en in a Chinese Pinyin input method, then select 蒽 from the candidates.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
蒽
HTML hex
蒽
CSS content
content: "\84BD";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%92%BD
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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.