What 菬 means
It names a grass; another reading appears in a medicinal-herb name.
The Shuowen Jiezi, a Chinese dictionary completed around 100 CE, defines 菬 as a grass and analyzes it as 艹 (the plant element) plus 沼 for sound.
Later dictionaries record 菬子 as a medicinal-herb name under a second reading, and give 仙苕 as another plant gloss. The exact modern species remains unresolved as of 2026-09-11.
Historical and specialist; add a gloss when the plant sense matters.
Without context, readers cannot tell which plant gloss you intend.
Who writes 菬
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Questions people ask
1Why does 菬 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.
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How to type or find 菬
- Search it as
- qiao · zhao · qiao2 · zhao3 · 菬子 · 菬子草 · 仙苕 · 𦻟
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
菬\83ECCodes and encoding1 code points
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