What 丛 means
A cluster or thicket.
The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary compiled around 100 CE, glosses 叢 as “gathered.” The form combines 丵, a component associated with plants growing in clusters, and 取, which contributes the sound. That image extends to groups of people or things, dense writing, and book series; compounds specify what is clustered, such as grass in 草丛, a forest in 丛林, or books in 丛书. The modern forms pair simplified 丛 with traditional 叢.
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Who writes 丛
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-53E2
Traditional Chinese form corresponding to simplified 丛; the two share the same core meaning.
CJK Unified Ideograph-6A37
A historical written variant recorded as related to 丛.
CJK Unified Ideograph-85C2
A historical written variant recorded as related to 丛.
CJK Unified Ideograph-83C6
A historical written variant recorded as related to 丛.
Combination ideas
3A clump or thicket of grass.
A forest or jungle.
A series or collection of books.
Questions people ask
1Why does 丛 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 丛
- Also called
- 叢
- Search it as
- cong · cóng · 草丛 · 丛林 · 丛书 · thicket
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
丛CSS
\4E1B丛 pinyin
In a Chinese pinyin input method, type cong without a tone mark, then choose 丛 from the candidate list.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
丛
HTML hex
丛
CSS content
content: "\4E1B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E4%B8%9B
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.