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菁

cjk unified ideograph-83c1

Character 菁

菁 began with luxuriant plants and came to mark refined or outstanding things. It appears in 菁英 (“elite talent”) and 菁華 (“essence”). In Taiwan Taiwanese, 菁仔欉 can mean a betel palm or a rash person.

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jīng · qīng · 菁英 · 菁華 · 菁菁 · 精英 · 精華 · 菁仔
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What 菁 means

It evokes flourishing plants, then prized value.

The earliest trail found here is the Book of Songs phrase 菁菁者莪, not a dated first inscription. Its preface reads the poem as nurturing talent. The dictionary record moves from chive flowers and blooming plants to refined value; 菁 is built with grass-radical 艹 plus sound-bearing 青.

Therefore 精 is an alternate spelling in 菁英/精英 and 菁華/精華, not a visual twin.

Literary in old quotations; compound-bound in modern Mandarin.

菁英 praises; 菁仔欉 can insult.

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings
菁菁者莪 in verse
Lush plants; an image for nurturing talent.
菁英 or 菁華
Outstanding people or a thing’s essence.
菁仔欉 in Taiwan Taiwanese
As of 2026, a betel palm; figuratively, a rash person.

Don't confuse it with

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精
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精 uses rice-radical 米; 菁 uses grass-radical 艹.

Combination ideas

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elite talent
essence or the finest part
lush, flourishing vegetation

Questions people ask

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Why does 菁 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 菁

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 83C1, then Alt+X to get 菁.
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-83c1”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 83c1, then Enter or Space.
HTML
菁
CSS
\83C1
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
菁
HTML hex
菁
CSS content
content: "\83C1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%8F%81
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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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