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荛

cjk unified ideograph-835b

CJK Unified Ideograph-835B

Type rao or rao2 in a Chinese IME and choose 荛; in traditional output, choose 蕘. It means firewood or brushwood, and by extension the woodcutter who gathers it. In the classical phrase 芻蕘, that worker becomes the ordinary person whose advice is worth asking; 蕘花 is a plant name.

Text symbol
Also called
蕘
Search it as
rao · firewood · brushwood · woodcutter · kindling · 刍荛 · 芻蕘 · 荛花
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 荛 means

Enter rao and select 荛 from your IME's candidates. Use rao2 if your keyboard takes tone numbers, and choose 蕘 when the IME is set to traditional output. Copy it from the palette above once you have the right form.

Its textual trail reaches the pre-Qin Book of Songs: the 詩經 phrase 詢於芻蕘 tells rulers to seek counsel from grass-cutters and woodcutters. The base sense is cut grass or brushwood for fuel, extended to the gatherer, the act of cutting fuel, and the plant term 蕘花. In Japanese reference tradition 蕘花 is an old plant name, recorded around 918.

Literary and specialist in modern messages; use it where the surrounding Chinese text makes the reference clear.

Sent alone, it leaves the sense underdetermined; it is not casual shorthand.

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings
Single 荛 with no surrounding words
Firewood or a woodcutter; the compound is needed to decide.
Inside 刍荛
A woodcutter or commoner whose opinion is worth seeking.
Inside 荛花
A plant name, not a firewood phrase.

Don't confuse it with

1
蕘
CJK Unified Ideograph-8558
Traditional counterpart of 荛; use it when surrounding text uses traditional Chinese.

Combination ideas

2
A woodcutter or commoner; advice from below.
A plant name; here 荛 does not mean firewood.

Questions people ask

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Is 荛 an emoji?

No. It is a CJK ideograph; a font draws it, with no emoji artwork or skin-tone variants.

How to type 荛

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 835B, then Alt+X to get 荛.
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-835b”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 835b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
荛
CSS
\835B
Pinyin 荛
Type rao or rao2, then select 荛 from the candidate list.
Traditional 蕘
Switch to traditional output and choose 蕘; it is the same word-form.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
荛
HTML hex
荛
CSS content
content: "\835B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%8D%9B
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On screen
1
Code points
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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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