What 苪 means
It has an older brightness sense and a separate grass-name sense.
In Mandarin, it sounds roughly like “bing,” with a tone that dips and rises; Pinyin, the Mandarin sound-writing system, spells it bǐng. Chinese dictionaries treat 苪 as an older equivalent of 炳 specifically for “bright” or “conspicuous.”
Its written record runs through older Chinese dictionaries: Jade Chapters (玉篇), Expanded Rhymes (廣韻), and the Kangxi Dictionary (康熙字典).
Literary or archival; it appears in dictionary entries and historical personal or place names.
Alone, it is opaque; ask what name or source it refers to.
Questions people ask
1Why does 苪 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 苪
苪\82EACodes and encoding1 code points
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