What 芿 means
It describes regrowth or grass left uncut.
In Mandarin, its reading is rèng, written in pinyin, the Latin-letter system for Mandarin sounds; the syllable has a falling tone. Shuowen, an early Chinese dictionary, has no entry for 芿 as of 2026; the Yupian, completed in 543, gives its earliest dictionary record.
Later glosses include regrowth and coarse grass. A hunting passage in Liezi, a classical Chinese text, places the word in burned woodland; Tang citations also use it in descriptions of woodland and grass.
A botanical dictionary word with a classical literary register.
An isolated 芿 gives too little context to infer the sender’s mood.
Who writes 芿
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Questions people ask
1Why does 芿 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 芿
- Search it as
- rèng · wild grass · regrown grass · uncut grass
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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