What 䆏 means
It names a rice and can also mean “to fertilize.”
In Mandarin, the readings are roughly “fay” for the rice sense and “fuhn” for fertilizing; both have a falling tone. Pinyin, Mandarin’s Latin-letter spelling system, writes them fèi and fèn.
The Shuowen Jiezi, an Eastern Han dictionary compiled around 100 CE, records the rice sense. In the character’s traditional analysis, 禾 marks grain and 糞 contributes the sound. Later dictionaries also record 䆏 for applying fertilizer.
䆏 or 糞?
They are different characters, though one recorded sense overlaps.
糞 is the common character for excrement or manure. 䆏 can name a rice, and a later dictionary reading also means applying fertilizer. A crop description or field-work sentence tells you which reading fits.
How do I type 䆏?
Use a Unicode-aware character map or a source-code escape.
Search for U+418F in a Unicode character map or input tool.
In HTML, 䆏 inserts the character; in JavaScript-style source, \u{418F} is a readable escape.
Classical and specialist; use it for a source term or exact transcription.
In a crop description, 䆏 means rice, not manure by default.
Who writes 䆏
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsFèi: the purple-stem, non-glutinous rice.
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Questions people ask
1Why is 䆏 a box?
A missing-glyph box can appear if the font lacks the glyph; the text may still contain 䆏. Use a font that supports this character before assuming the source text is wrong.
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How to type or find 䆏
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- 䆏 meaning · 䆏 rice · 䆏 糞 difference · 䆏 𥤑 variant · fèi · fèn
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
䆏\418FU+418F in a Unicode-aware character map or input tool.䆏 in HTML to insert the character.\u{418F} where the language accepts Unicode escapes.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.