What 霈 means
Enter Mandarin pèi or pei4, then select 霈.
On a Mandarin Pinyin keyboard, enter pèi or tone-number pei4; the shape-based Cangjie input code is MBEJB. The top component 雨 marks rain. Japanese dictionaries also give はい and the older native reading ひさめ; these are Japanese readings, not Mandarin input spellings.
What does 霈 mean?
It means heavy, abundant rain.
The Liang Yupian, a Chinese dictionary compiled around 543, defines 霈 as heavy rain. In the character, 雨 marks rain while 沛 contributes the Mandarin sound pèi and a sense of flowing abundance. Classical writers extended the rain image to a ruler’s favor.
Classical writing also uses 霈然 for self-satisfaction, as in 霈然自得. In Taiwanese Hokkien, a regional Sinitic language, a usage dictionary records 霈 for loud rain and 霈霈 for the impact of waves, as of 2026.
Literary and uncommon in casual Mandarin; it feels deliberate in classical-style or formal writing.
霈 and 沛 share a Mandarin reading, but they are distinct characters; use 霈 for the rain sense.
What it means when someone sends it to you
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1Why does 霈 look different in fonts?
Typeface-dependent. 楷體, 黑體, and 宋體 give the same character different proportions; a shape change does not create a new meaning.
How to type 霈
霈\9708Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.