What 莗 means
Use a Mandarin pinyin keyboard.
Pinyin spells Mandarin with Latin letters. Enter chē and select 莗 from the candidates; a standard word list may not include this uncommon plant name.
What does 莗 mean?
莗 names the plantain herb (Plantago).
It appears chiefly in 莗草 and 莗葥; dictionaries also give 車前 and 車前草 as names for the same plant. The Book of Songs includes a gathering poem titled 芣苢, an older plant name; later dictionaries note that 莗 was originally written 車.
A later commentary on the poem identifies its plant as Plantago and links it to fertility and difficult childbirth, an old belief rather than medical advice.
What does 莗 mean in chat?
As of 2026, no fixed chat meaning is established. Standalone 莗 may be a quoted character or a request to identify it; ask the sender what they intended.
Dictionary-level and specialist-looking; it fits plant names and references to classical texts.
For a vehicle, use 車 or 车; 莗 is the plant graph.
What it means when someone sends it to you
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1Why does 莗 look different in different fonts?
Source Han Sans, a CJK font, listed 莗 with a Taiwan-style design in 2021. Fonts can draw the same Han character differently by region; the strokes change, not the underlying character.
How to type 莗
莗\8397Codes and encoding1 code points
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