What 蕡 means
It chiefly names hemp seed, with other plant senses.
The Rites of Zhou, an ancient ritual text, lists 蕡 as hemp seed in a bamboo dish at ancestor rites. The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, glosses it as mixed fragrant grass; other dictionaries give abundant fruit. In 蕡’s traditional analysis, 賁 contributes sound, not meaning.
蕡 has a literary register; context helps distinguish its plant senses.
Questions people ask
1Why does 蕡 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 蕡
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 8561, then Alt+X to get 蕡.
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-8561”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 8561, then Enter or Space.
HTML
蕡CSS
\8561Cangjie (IBus)
Cangjie input for 蕡 is 廿十廿金. As of 2026, IBus Cangjie may filter it out unless rare-character input is enabled.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
蕡
HTML hex
蕡
CSS content
content: "\8561";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%95%A1
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.