What 蓵 means
A woven grass screen used to block a doorway.
The early dictionary 說文解字 omits 蓵; the later dictionary 集韻, completed in 1039, glosses 編艸障戶 as grass woven to screen a door.
Later Chinese dictionaries list 𥷩 and 䕹 as written variants.
Rare dictionary vocabulary, suited to historical Chinese or character discussions.
As of 2026, no established slang sense exists.
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2Questions people ask
1Why does 蓵 render differently?
Regional Han fonts may draw it differently; the text character remains 蓵.
How to type 蓵
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 84F5, then Alt+X to get 蓵.
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-84f5”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 84f5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
蓵CSS
\84F5Pinyin
Enter jié in Chinese Pinyin input, then choose 蓵.
Cangjie
In Chinese Cangjie input, enter TQJO.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
蓵
HTML hex
蓵
CSS content
content: "\84F5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%93%B5
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.