What 蒵 means
It names a plant in one old term and a shoe strap in another.
The Erya, an early Chinese glossary, records 菟蒵 as a plant name; later dictionaries also write 兔蒵 and link the name to 款冬.
A story in the Nan Shi, a history of China's Southern Dynasties, uses 蒵 for the strap on a wooden clog (屐). The strap breaks and is mended with grass.
Classical and lexicographic; its historical senses need phrase-level context.
Alone, it does not identify which sense is intended.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readings菟蒵 / 兔蒵
Plant name in 菟蒵; dictionaries link it to 款冬.
屧蒵; a passage about 屐
Shoe strap on a wooden clog; in the story, it is mended with grass.
Questions people ask
1Why does 蒵 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 蒵
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 84B5, then Alt+X to get 蒵.
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-84b5”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 84b5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
蒵CSS
\84B5Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
蒵
HTML hex
蒵
CSS content
content: "\84B5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%92%B5
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.