What 藷 means
Check the compound: it names sugarcane, tubers, or sweet potato.
Early Chinese writing uses 藷藇, with a commentary from around 300 glossing 藷 as a southern plant name, while 藷蔗 is the old word for sugarcane. After the sweet potato reached Fujian in 1594, 番藷 named the newcomer and 甘藷 became the lasting word for sweet potato in Chinese and Japanese, where 藷 also serves as a variant of 薯.
Who writes 藷
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Combination ideas
2Sugarcane in early Chinese usage.
Sweet potato in Chinese and Japanese usage.
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How to type or find 藷
- Search it as
- 藷蔗 · 甘藷 · 番藷 · 藷藇 · 薯 · かんしょ · さつまいも · shǔ
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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藷CSS
\85F7How to type 藷
Type pinyin shu, or Japanese しょ / かんしょ, then pick 藷 from the candidates; copy it from the palette above if it misses.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
藷
HTML hex
藷
CSS content
content: "\85F7";
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URL encoded
%E8%97%B7
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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
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