What 粈 means
It means “mixed rice.”
《說文解字》, an early Chinese dictionary, uses that gloss: 米 on the left points to rice, while 丑 on the right supplies the sound.
Later Chinese dictionaries and a Buddhist glossary link 粈 to 糅, also used for mixing things of different colours. Mainland China’s 2013 standard character list excludes 粈.
Rare and literary; it reads as a historical or variant form.
For the modern Chinese verb “mix,” choose 糅.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 粈 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.
How to type 粈
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 7C88, then Alt+X to get 粈.
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-7c88”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 7c88, then Enter or Space.
HTML
粈CSS
\7C88Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
粈
HTML hex
粈
CSS content
content: "\7C88";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%B2%88
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On screen
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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.