What 叢 means
It names things packed together, first as vegetation and then as collections.
The earliest trail I could verify reaches Qin-slip and small-seal stages. As of 2026, the evidence supports an evolved graph rather than a named invention. Chinese sources connect it to clustered growth and gathering, then extend it to thickets, groups, miscellany, and books. Japanese keeps the same core in 叢生, 叢林, and 叢書.
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Who writes 叢
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-4E1B
Simplified Chinese form of 叢; use 丛 in simplified writing, 叢 in traditional and Japanese.
CJK Unified Ideograph-85C2
Recorded variant form of the same word, with grass radical emphasized.
CJK Unified Ideograph-6A37
Recorded rare variant of the same word, with tree radical instead.
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How to type or find 叢
- Also called
- 丛 · cóng · ソウ
- Search it as
- cong · cong2 · thicket · bush · cluster · collection · 叢書 · 叢生
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
叢CSS
\53E2Pinyin
Type cong, then choose the cóng candidate 叢; simplified mode may return 丛.
Traditional IME
Bopomofo uses ㄘㄨㄥˊ; Cangjie, Array, and DaYi use shape-based candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
叢
HTML hex
叢
CSS content
content: "\53E2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%8F%A2
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.