What 郈 means
It names an ancient place in Lu, in present-day Shandong.
The earliest evidence found here is a Spring and Autumn period place-name. Early dictionaries place it in Dongping's Wuyan township; later records call it a Shusun fief. Its job was to write a locality name, not express a feeling.
It later marked a family name, including 郈昭伯. Historical records connect that surname with 后 and 厚 spellings; preserve 郈 in names and quotations.
Historical and formal; if it appears as a box, your font lacks the glyph.
Do not normalize 郈 to 后 or 厚 in a name.
Who writes 郈
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 郈 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 郈
- Search it as
- hou · hòu · 郈姓 · 郈氏 · 郈乡 · hou character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
郈\90C8Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.