What ⺿ means
It marks a grass-related component, not a standalone word.
艸 is the older full grass character. A Han-era dictionary, Shuowen Jiezi, analyzes it as two sprout-shaped signs (屮). Oracle-bone and bronze records preserve earlier grass forms. In character dictionaries, the grass radical helps index entries; its plant clue can also point to plant types, parts, properties, or uses.
Technical and lexicographic: it labels a grass-related character component in reference material, not a conversational message.
Do not use ⺿ in ordinary text as a substitute for the grass component 艹.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⺿ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Radicals Supplement block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ⺿
- Search it as
- grass radical · character component · bushou · cao · cao bu · 艹 · 艸
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⺿\2EBFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.