What 葻 means
It describes grass moved by wind.
The earliest written record of 葻 is in the Shuowen Jiezi, a Chinese dictionary compiled around 100 CE. Its entry explains the character through 艹, the grass element, and 風, the character for wind, which also supplies its sound.
Chinese and Korean dictionary entries record the grass-and-wind sense. Vietnamese Nôm also uses 葻 for bông (“flower”) and buông (“release”); some Chinese dictionaries list a plant-name sense too.
Questions people ask
1Why does 葻 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 葻
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 847B, then Alt+X to get 葻.
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-847b”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 847b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
葻CSS
\847B葻 Cangjie
With Chinese Cangjie input, enter THNI for 葻’s 艹 (grass) + 風 (wind) components.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
葻
HTML hex
葻
CSS content
content: "\847B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%91%BB
1
On screen
1
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.