What 诺 means
It means assent or a promise, depending on the wording.
Alone, 诺 can answer “yes” or “agreed”; in 承诺 and 诺言 it contributes “promise.”
Western Zhou bronze inscriptions used 若 for assent. Traditional 諾 combines 言 for speech with 若 for sound; 诺 is its simplified form.
The idioms praise keeping your word or criticize submissive agreement.
A lone 诺 signals agreement, not guaranteed follow-through.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
2A promise treated as precious; praise for keeping your word.
Repeated assent portrayed as submissive compliance, not praise.
Questions people ask
1Why does 诺 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.
How to type 诺
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8BFA, then Alt+X to get 诺.
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-8bfa”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8bfa, then Enter or Space.
HTML
诺CSS
\8BFACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
诺
HTML hex
诺
CSS content
content: "\8BFA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%AF%BA
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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.