What 闔 means
A door leaf, “to shut,” or the whole group.
One oracle-bone form is catalogued as 合4853/4854. The Han-era Shuowen Jiezi dictionary records “door leaf” and “close”; it treats 門 as meaning and 盍 as sound.
The Han-era Book of Han uses 闔郡 for a whole commandery. Formal 闔家 and 闔府 mean the whole family or household.
Literary and formal; standalone use can sound archaic.
In 闔家, 闔 means “whole,” not “close.”
Who writes 闔
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readings“Close” or “shut” the door.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
1A formal wish for the whole family to reunite.
Questions people ask
1Why does 闔 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 闔
- Search it as
- he2 · 闔家 · 闔府 · 阖 · door leaf
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
闔CSS
\95D4Mandarin Pinyin IME
Type hé with Traditional output enabled, then select 闔.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
闔
HTML hex
闔
CSS content
content: "\95D4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%97%94
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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.