What 芛 means
It marks a plant’s newly opening bloom. The word labels a flowering stage, not a species.
The Erya, an early Chinese wordbook, groups 芛 with 蕍, 葟, 華 and 榮 as flowering terms. The later Shuowen dictionary gives the same sense and describes its parts as 艹 (the plant-related component) plus 尹.
Classical and botanical; sent alone, it reads like a deliberate rare-word choice.
Questions people ask
1Why does 芛 show as a box?
The font may not include 芛. A font with Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character coverage can display it.
How to type 芛
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 829B, then Alt+X to get 芛.
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-829b”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 829b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
芛CSS
\829BPinyin
In a Mandarin pinyin input method, enter wei without the tone mark; Cangjie users enter 廿尸大.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
芛
HTML hex
芛
CSS content
content: "\829B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%8A%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.