What 诞 means
The compound decides. 诞生 means birth; 荒诞 and 怪诞 describe absurdity, while 诞妄 means false or unreasonable. Alone, 诞 is ambiguous.
The pre-Qin poem 生民 tells Hou Ji’s ritual origin story; he is a legendary figure associated with farming. Traditional explanations differ: one calls 诞 “great”; another says it starts the phrase.
Why did my keyboard give me 誕?
It is the traditional Chinese form. Chinese input methods use 誕 for Traditional Chinese and 诞 for Simplified Chinese; Japanese also writes this character as 誕.
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Who writes 诞
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsBirth or being born
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 诞 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 诞
- Search it as
- dàn · dan · 诞生 · 圣诞 · Christmas · 荒诞 · 誕
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
诞\8BDECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.