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𰱮

cjk unified ideograph-30c6e

Madder Character

Chinese references list 𰱮 as the simplified form of 藘 (Mandarin lǘ), an old name for madder, a plant whose root yields red dye. The older compound 茹藘 appears in the ancient Chinese poetry collection Book of Songs and links the plant with dyed clothing.

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madder · 藘 · 茹藘 · lǘ · lü · leoi4 · 茜草
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What 𰱮 means

藘 names madder, whose root yields red dye.

The compound 茹藘 appears in the ancient Chinese poetry collection, the Book of Songs: one poem places the plant on a hillside, and another links it with red-dyed clothing. Chinese references give the Mandarin reading as lǘ (pinyin) and the Cantonese reading as leoi4 (Jyutping).

Questions people ask

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Why does 𰱮 appear as a box?

The font or renderer may lack a glyph for this character. Unicode 18.0 recommends a visible fallback for unsupported graphic characters; the placeholder is not a substitute character.

How to type 𰱮

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 30C6E, then Alt+X to get 𰱮.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-30c6e”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 30c6e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𰱮
CSS
\30C6E
HTML
In HTML source, use 𰱮, a hexadecimal numeric character reference for the whole character.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𰱮
HTML hex
𰱮
CSS content
content: "\30C6E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%B0%B1%AE
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JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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