Original Chinese character used in the Wikipedia logo (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary:%E8%A2%93" class="extiw" title="en:Wiktionary:袓">袓</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=8893">U+8893</a>). It means "good", or "beautiful", but was chosen randomly for aesthetic reasons (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nohat" title="User:Nohat">Nohat</a>, who designed that version of the logo, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Final_logo_variants/Nohat" class="extiw" title="meta:Final logo variants/Nohat">said</a>: <i>"As I don't read Chinese, I just picked it at random (...) I hope it doesn't mean something bad"</i>)
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Waldir" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Waldir">Waldir</a>
2010-05-16
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>, based on <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Correct_Chinese_Character_in_The_Wikipedia%27s_Logo.png" title="File:Correct Chinese Character in The Wikipedia's Logo.png">Correct Chinese Character in The Wikipedia's Logo.png</a>: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Correct_Chinese_Character_in_The_Wikipedia%27s_Logo.png" class="image"><img alt="Correct Chinese Character in The Wikipedia's Logo.png" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Correct_Chinese_Character_in_The_Wikipedia%27s_Logo.png/64px-Correct_Chinese_Character_in_The_Wikipedia%27s_Logo.png" decoding="async" width="64" height="32" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Correct_Chinese_Character_in_The_Wikipedia%27s_Logo.png/96px-Correct_Chinese_Character_in_The_Wikipedia%27s_Logo.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Correct_Chinese_Character_in_The_Wikipedia%27s_Logo.png/128px-Correct_Chinese_Character_in_The_Wikipedia%27s_Logo.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500"></a>