What 闍 means
A raised watch platform at a city gate.
The Shijing (Book of Songs), a Chinese poetry collection, uses 闉闍 for a city gate.
Why does 闍 appear in 阿闍梨?
It carries part of the word's sound.
阿闍梨 spells Sanskrit ācārya with Chinese characters by sound. Sanskrit is a classical South Asian language; ācārya means a teacher who guides disciples. 闍梨 and 闍黎 are shortened forms.
Literary; its compound sets the sense.
Who writes 闍
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsA town inside the outer wall.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 闍 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 闍
- Search it as
- 闍 · 阇 · 闉闍 · 阿闍梨 · 阿阇梨 · 闍梨 · 闍黎 · gate platform
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
闍CSS
\95CDCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
闍
HTML hex
闍
CSS content
content: "\95CD";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%97%8D
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On screen
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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.