What 蒿 means
蒿 is a broad plant name for mugwort-like Artemisia species. Mandarin hāo sounds roughly like “how,” with a breathy h and a high, level tone.
A pre-Qin (before the Qin dynasty) verse in 《诗经》, an early Chinese poetry collection, has deer eating 蒿. The Han-era 《说文解字》, an early dictionary, glosses it as 菣, saying 艸 marks the plant and 高 supplies the sound.
Old glossaries link 蓬 to 蒿; 蓬蒿 evokes overgrowth, while 蒿目 is a classical phrase for worry. CJK fonts may draw 蒿 in different styles.
Who writes 蒿
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 蒿 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 蒿
- Search it as
- hao · 蒿草 · 青蒿 · 艾蒿 · 芦蒿 · 蓬蒿 · mugwort · artemisia
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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