What 谙 means
It means knowing something thoroughly, often through experience. The Han-era dictionary Shuowen Jiezi glosses 諳 as “knowing fully”; older examples apply it to places, official matters, and memorized details. The left side 讠 (traditional 言) marks speech; 音 is the sound component.
A literary written verb for deep familiarity.
In casual chat it may sound bookish; 熟悉 is the everyday Chinese word for “be familiar with.”
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-8Af3
Traditional Chinese form of the simplified character 谙.
CJK Unified Ideograph-6697
Shares the 音 sound component with 谙 in a historical phonetic series; the meanings differ.
CJK Unified Ideograph-5591
Another member of 谙's historical 音 phonetic series; this links the sounds, not the meanings.
Combination ideas
3Deeply versed in a subject or system.
Thoroughly familiar with a skill, subject, or language.
Knowledgeable about a matter.
Questions people ask
1Why does 谙 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 谙
- Search it as
- 谙 meaning · 諳 · 深谙 · 谙练 · 谙习 · 谙识 · 熟谙 · ān
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
谙CSS
\8C19Mandarin Pinyin
With a Mandarin Pinyin keyboard (Latin-letter sound input), type an and select 谙; some accept tone 1 (an1) to narrow candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
谙
HTML hex
谙
CSS content
content: "\8C19";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%B0%99
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.