What 苽 means
苽 is an older form of 菰, a wetland-plant name.
Classical texts list it among six grains, call its grain 彫胡, and name the plant 蔣.
A Chu bamboo slip preserves the form before Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary. 菰 is the standard form; 苽 its variant.
Questions people ask
1Why does 苽 look different in fonts?
Fonts can draw the same character differently. As of 2026, a blank box usually means the active font lacks it.
How to type 苽
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 82FD, then Alt+X to get 苽.
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-82fd”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 82fd, then Enter or Space.
HTML
苽CSS
\82FD苽 input method
Enter `gu` on a Mandarin Pinyin keyboard and check candidates; if absent, use Unicode hex `82FD`.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
苽
HTML hex
苽
CSS content
content: "\82FD";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%8B%BD
1
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.