What 霍 means
It can mean “sudden” or “quick,” and it is also a Chinese surname.
Its earliest surviving forms appear in oracle-bone inscriptions (carved on bone or shell) and bronze inscriptions, where it names a place or person. Fuller 靃 shows paired birds beneath 雨 (“rain”); 霍 is reduced.
Japanese readings are kaku (かく), niwaka (“sudden”), and hayai (“fast”); Korean Hanja reads it gwak (곽).
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Combination ideas
3Suddenly or quickly; can mark an abrupt change.
Spend extravagantly; historically, also move swiftly.
Cholera; older usage also means severe stomach trouble or turmoil.
Questions people ask
1Why does 霍 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 霍
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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霍CSS
\970DPinyin
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huo; some Pinyin IMEs accept huo4. Select 霍.Cangjie
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MBOG; Cangjie chooses characters by shape, not sound.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
霍
HTML hex
霍
CSS content
content: "\970D";
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URL encoded
%E9%9C%8D
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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.