What 贯 means
Usually: pass through, connect, or carry something through. The early form is a picture of strung shells or coins; it named both the string and the money counted on it.
Chinese compounds carry that thread into coherent language, ancestral home, and carrying an idea through. Japan's 貫 keeps the same piercing, lineage, custom, and old currency and weight senses. For 贯 or 貫, it is one character: 贯 is simplified, 貫 is traditional.
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Who writes 贯
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 贯 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 贯
- Search it as
- guan · guàn · 贯 · 貫 · 贯穿 · 贯通 · 连贯 · 籍贯
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
贯CSS
\8D2FCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
贯
HTML hex
贯
CSS content
content: "\8D2F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%B4%AF
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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.