What 荾 means
A plant character with two recorded senses.
A literary use appears in the late 2nd century BCE in 李夫人赋, a Han-era poem about Lady Li. There, 荾 describes the center of a flower in a comparison of beauty.
Its form combines 艹, the plant-signalling top component, with 夋, which supplies the sound. Dictionary entries also connect 荾 with Chinese coriander terms, including 胡荾 and 芫荽.
Questions people ask
1Why does 荾 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 荾
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 837E, then Alt+X to get 荾.
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-837e”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 837e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
荾CSS
\837EMandarin Pinyin keyboard
On a Chinese Pinyin keyboard, type `sui` and select 荾. Pinyin enters Mandarin from Latin-letter spellings; 荽 has the same reading, so check the candidates.
Cangjie shape input
If your Chinese keyboard has Cangjie, the shape-based input method, enter TICE.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
荾
HTML hex
荾
CSS content
content: "\837E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%8D%BE
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.