What 藗 means
It names the plant glossed as 牡茅. The Erya, an early Chinese reference work dated roughly to the 3rd–2nd centuries BCE, gives that gloss. The Shuowen Jiezi, a Chinese character dictionary submitted in 121 CE, analyzes 藗 as 艹, the plant-sign component, plus 遬, which hints at its sound. Classical accounts describe 茅 grass used to line and strain vessels for wine offerings in rituals.
Who writes 藗
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 藗 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 藗
- Search it as
- 牡茅 · 白茅 · white cogon grass · 藗 蔌 · sù
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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HTML
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\85D7Japanese fonts and input
As of 2026, a Japanese kanji reference marks display as environment-dependent and lists 藗 as absent from JIS X 0213. If it fails to appear, the available font or input method may lack support.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
藗
HTML hex
藗
CSS content
content: "\85D7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%97%97
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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.