What 誊 means
It means to reproduce written text by writing it again.
The older form 謄 appears in the Eastern Han dictionary Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, with a gloss meaning “to transfer written text by copying it.” A Yuan period record describes exam scripts copied line by line in red ink.
Chinese uses it in 誊写 for copying out text and in 誊录 for transcription. 抄写 is a synonym, not a variant.
Who writes 誊
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 誊 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 誊
- Search it as
- teng · teng2 · téng · 誊写 · 誊录 · 謄 · 謄寫 · 抄写
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
誊CSS
\8A8APinyin
How to type 誊: use a Chinese Pinyin input method, which turns Mandarin syllables written in Latin letters into Chinese characters; enter
teng and select 誊.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
誊
HTML hex
誊
CSS content
content: "\8A8A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%AA%8A
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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.