What 蕉 means
蕉 abbreviates plant names; the full word tells you which one.
In Chinese, 蕉 can abbreviate 香蕉 (banana) or 芭蕉 (plantain). In Japanese, it appears in 芭蕉 (the plant), 蕉翁 (Bashō), and 蕉門 (his school).
The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, glosses 蕉 as raw hemp around 121 CE. A Chinese plant book, Nanfang Caomu Zhuang, traditionally dated to 304 CE, describes edible fruit and stems processed into 蕉葛 fiber cloth.
Who writes 蕉
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsBanana.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 蕉 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 蕉
- Search it as
- jiao · banana · plantain · xiangjiao · bajiao · basho
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
蕉CSS
\8549How to type 蕉
With Chinese pinyin input, type jiao; xiangjiao or bajiao narrows the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
蕉
HTML hex
蕉
CSS content
content: "\8549";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%95%89
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.