What 藇 means
In classical Chinese, 藇 praises wine as fine or beautiful.
The ancient Classic of Poetry includes 釃酒有藇; a traditional gloss calls 藇 “beautiful.” The Classic of Mountains and Seas records 藷藇, an old yam name.
Dictionaries give 藇 the sense “lush growth,” also written 穥, and its yam-name sense as 蕷, as in 薯蕷. Mandarin’s letter spelling, pinyin, gives xù for wine and yù for yam: both have a falling tone and “ee” with rounded lips; xù starts like soft sh, yù like y.
Questions people ask
1Why does 藇 show as a box?
The font lacks 藇; the text remains. Choose a font that supports it.
How to type 藇
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 85C7, then Alt+X to get 藇.
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-85c7”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 85c7, then Enter or Space.
HTML
藇CSS
\85C7Cangjie
For Traditional Chinese Cangjie input, enter THXC.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
藇
HTML hex
藇
CSS content
content: "\85C7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%97%87
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.