What 闈 means
It first named a gate inside a palace. The early Chinese dictionary Shuowen Jiezi glosses 闈 as “a gate within the palace.” Later it also named the inner quarters and sites for imperial examinations, tests for government posts. In 闈, 門 marks the gate; 韋 supplies the sound.
Formal and literary; it appears mainly in written compounds.
The compound determines which sense applies.
Who writes 闈
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Questions people ask
1Why does 闈 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 闈
- Search it as
- 闱 · 宮闈 · 春闈 · 秋闈 · 闈場 · 入闈
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
闈CSS
\95C8Chinese Pinyin
Enter wéi (Mandarin, roughly “way” with a rising tone), or wei2 if your keyboard uses tone numbers; choose 闈.
Handwriting search
Use handwriting or stroke search in a Chinese dictionary.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
闈
HTML hex
闈
CSS content
content: "\95C8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%97%88
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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.