What 藘 means
藘 names madder, a plant used for red dye.
The Book of Songs, an early Chinese poetry collection, places 茹藘 on a slope in one verse and uses it for a dyed garment in another.
Does 藘蕠 mean the same plant as 茹藘?
No. 茹藘 names madder; 藘蕠 names a different herb.
An entry checked 2026-10-08 lists 藘蕠 as a poisonous herb.
Questions people ask
1Why does 藘 show as a box?
Your active font lacks the glyph; a font that supports it will display 藘.
How to type 藘
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 85D8, then Alt+X to get 藘.
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-85d8”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 85d8, then Enter or Space.
HTML
藘CSS
\85D8Cangjie
To type 藘, enter TYPP (廿卜心心) in a Chinese Cangjie input method.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
藘
HTML hex
藘
CSS content
content: "\85D8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%97%98
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.