What 𧅀 means
A square stem, paired leaves, and white flowers.
Tang-era Bencao Shiyi, a medicinal-plant book, gives the description. Li Shizhen’s 16th-century herbal Bencao Gangmu identifies the plant as 益母草; earlier authorities disagreed. The entry says young shoots were edible, explaining 菜 (“vegetable”) in 𧅀菜. This form is absent from the early Shuowen Jiezi dictionary. Its Mandarin reading is cán.
Who writes 𧅀
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Check font coverage. This extended CJK glyph may be missing from your font; Microsoft’s current Word guidance says to choose a font that includes it.
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How to type or find 𧅀
- Search it as
- motherwort · cán · cáncài · 益母草 · 鏨菜 · 𧅀菜
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𧅀CSS
\27140GNOME/GTK
Press CtrlShiftU, type 27140, then press Enter; Unicode’s current keyboard FAQ documents this method.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𧅀
HTML hex
𧅀
CSS content
content: "\27140";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%A7%85%80
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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.