What 蓚 means
In Japanese, 蓚 chiefly appears in 蓚酸, meaning “oxalic acid.” Japanese dictionaries also give it the standalone plant reading すいば (roughly “soo-ee-bah”), a kind of sorrel, but mainly list it in compounds. A lone 蓚 does not tell you which word or language the sender intended.
The older Chinese character dictionary Shuowen glosses 蓨 as a plant name, and the old glossary Erya lists 蓨 alongside 蓧. Japanese dictionaries later treat 蓨 as the same plant-name character as 蓚. A Japanese chemistry reference cites 蓚酸 in 舎密開宗, a chemistry book published in 1837–47.
Why does 蓚 look different?
Regional fonts can draw the same Han character with different shapes. Unicode identifies the character, while a font supplies its visible form. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts can use different regional glyphs, and a rare character may fall back to a font for another locale. If 蓚 looks unfamiliar, check the font or language setting before treating it as another character.
Lexical and technical: expect plant-name or chemistry vocabulary.
A lone 蓚 is ambiguous; ask which word or language was intended.
Who writes 蓚
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readings蓚酸 means oxalic acid.
Related characters
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Combination ideas
2Questions people ask
1Why does 蓚 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 蓚
- Search it as
- 蓚酸 · しゅうさん · シュウ酸 · oxalic acid · sorrel · すいば · 蓨 · 蓧
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
蓚\84DACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.