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茓

cjk unified ideograph-8313

CJK Unified Ideograph-8313

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茓 (xué) is a rare Chinese character for a long woven mat that forms a grain bin, usually seen as 茓子. So is 茓 an emoji? No — it is a farm-storage word with no emoji presentation. Sent alone, it reads as a rare-character or local storage note.

Text symbol

What 茓 means

A woven mat used to enclose grain.

茓子 is made from sorghum-stalk or reed strips and wound around a bin base as grain is added.

As of 2026, no source checked here establishes a first manuscript attestation. The earliest dated item found is a 1961 People's Daily report listing 茓子 among grain-store equipment.

Someone sent me 茓 — what is it?

Usually a word, not a reaction.

Read it as a rare-character reference or local storage term. 踅子 is another name for 茓子, while 席茓囤 is a circular store made with mats and 茓子. A 2023 Dongming report records 茓子 in a local harvest custom; that ritual does not make 茓 a general symbol.

A rare rural-storage term, not internet shorthand.

Sent alone, it may look like a typo; add 茓子 or a gloss.

Who writes 茓

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Questions people ask

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Why does 茓 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 or find 茓

Also called
茓子 · 踅子
Search it as
席茓囤 · 粮囤 · 囤粮 · xue
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 8313, then AltX to get 茓.
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-8313”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 8313, then Enter or Space.
HTML
茓
CSS
\8313
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
茓
HTML hex
茓
CSS content
content: "\8313";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%8C%93
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.

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