What 誌 means
It means to write down or remember.
In Chinese, 誌哀 and 誌慶 commemorate; 碑誌 is an inscription, 地方誌 a regional record.
The 2024 entry places it in later additions to 說文解字, an early Chinese dictionary, not its original text. 言 means “words”; 志 supplies the sound.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsCommemoration, inscription, or a regional record.
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Combination ideas
3Traditional Chinese: magazine or periodical.
A formal promise to remember forever.
A memorial inscription.
Questions people ask
1Why does 誌 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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\8A8CCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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content: "\8A8C";
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%E8%AA%8C
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