What 菄 means
It is a plant-name character used in 菄風.
Old dictionary entries describe 菄風 as a vegetable from Lingnan’s flat wetlands that appears before spring. Taiwan’s Ministry of Education traces the spelling through older references: the early character dictionary 《說文》 does not list 菄; its entry cites 《玉篇》, 《廣韻》 (a rhyme dictionary), 《集韻》 and later works.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Will 菄 look identical in every font?
No. Across font families, the outline can vary because the active text font draws 菄.
How to type 菄
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 83C4, then Alt+X to get 菄.
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-83c4”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 83c4, then Enter or Space.
HTML
菄CSS
\83C4Cangjie
In a Cangjie input method, enter TDW. Other keyboards may not offer this character.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
菄
HTML hex
菄
CSS content
content: "\83C4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%8F%84
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On screen
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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.