What 菳 means
菳 is a rare plant-name character.
The early Chinese character dictionary 說文解字 records 黄菳; another dictionary gloss describes 菳 as a plant resembling mugwort.
In the herb name, 菳 is the older form and 芩 the later one. As of 2026, dictionaries mark standalone 菳 as rare or obsolete in Standard Chinese.
Rare and bookish; its documented home is plant names and historical dictionaries.
Sent alone? The plant reading needs a word around it.
Who writes 菳
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 菳 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 菳
- Search it as
- 菳 · qin · jin · huangqin · 黄菳 · 黄芩 · 芩 · Cangjie
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
菳CSS
\83F3Cangjie input for 菳
In a Cangjie IME, enter the recorded decomposition 廿金.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
菳
HTML hex
菳
CSS content
content: "\83F3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%8F%B3
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On screen
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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.