What 藃 means
Context picks the reading: xiāo for plants, hào for warping.
The wheelmaking passage heats the hub’s inside and levels its outside; later shrinkage could lift the leather covering.
Xu Shen’s Eastern Han dictionary 《说文解字》 parses 藃 as 艹 (grass) plus 歊, which hints at its sound. Commentaries link the wheel sense to 秏 or 槁 (“dry, shrivel”), historical readings rather than modern spelling options.
Classical and specialist; the passage determines the reading.
Questions people ask
1Why does 藃 vary by font?
Fonts draw text differently, so its strokes can vary while 藃 stays the same character.
How to type 藃
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 85C3, then Alt+X to get 藃.
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-85c3”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 85c3, then Enter or Space.
HTML
藃CSS
\85C3Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
藃
HTML hex
藃
CSS content
content: "\85C3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%97%83
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.