What 蔹 means
It names a vine; the compound identifies a dried remedy. The Book of Poetry, an early Chinese poetry collection, describes the related form 蘞 as a wild vine spreading across the fields. Later Chinese herbal books describe 白蔹 as the dried root, used for sores, swelling, and burns.
Combination ideas
1Name of the medicinal root of the vine botanists call Ampelopsis japonica.
Questions people ask
1Why does 蔹 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 蔹
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8539, then Alt+X to get 蔹.
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-8539”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8539, then Enter or Space.
HTML
蔹CSS
\8539Pinyin input
In a Chinese pinyin keyboard, type `lian` and choose 蔹. Mandarin 白蔹 is roughly “lyen” with the third tone (low, then rising); the classical vine reading 蘞 is about the same syllable with a rising second tone, lián.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
蔹
HTML hex
蔹
CSS content
content: "\8539";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%94%B9
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.