question 1: do you know this character: 丵. I found it as “thick grass”, “bush” component etc. Problem: cannot type it… somehow my IME does not seem to know this one.
丵 Looks like zhuó (zhuo2) to me. Definition is the same too. It’s a very common term. I’m surprised it cannot be typed. I’m able to type it (although I use Zhuyin characters to produce it).
many thanks, again
I did suspect it would be about a traditional character, although I found it in a book using only simplified Mandarin otherwise - the book was published 2014 by the university of Beijing and it is an atlas of plants…
any idea which is the simplified correspondent?
(I don’t know how to type zhuyin, and i’ll wait with learing that for a (long, longer?) while; first I have to see that my mandarin - simplified - goes a bit better)
I may have jumped the gun on this one. I’m researching it in my dictionaries now. I think I may have mistyped it. (It’s still early here, so I’m possibly not awake yet). I will see what I find out…
Wow, this is a good one. I checked my paper dictionaries and couldn’t find anything on this. I could only find references online, which display the character and definition as you list, but don’t exhibit any actual usage of the character. I tried my pinyin IME (yuck) and couldn’t type it, nor could my zhuyin one (using all the different tones). I think I typed it incorrectly the first time, but I forgot to save it. Sorry about that.
It looks like this is possibly an archaic character (which would explain the lack of real world examples) and possibly why it is not listed in a paper dictionary, and not able to be typed through an IME or a dedicated character keyboard. Maybe someone else could provide some insight.
Sorry, I could not be of more help. I am trying to learn this language as well, and it is evident that I am not as advanced as others such as yourself.
why you’re upset with me???
and I am not advanced in Mandarin at all… I was just hunting for easy (!!!) terminology for my Chinese “Flora” course.
hm, it could be that there is a scrybo/typo, or some otherwise very rare character in that book? (“scrybo” is the invention of eddie izzard)
The character appears in several dictionaries, indeed, but can be “obtained” with IME only if I type some rare compound, allegedly…
Do you have any idea which is the usual compound nowadays for “thick grass”?
in fact, who can answer such question… hm… somebody working at some botanical garden or as parkranger, in mainland China or Taiwan, probably 
@Hydroptere ~ I hope all is well with you. I have no idea how why you think I might be upset with you. I never get upset with anyone, and even if I did, I would never do so in public. If I am frustrated with anyone, it would be with myself for making such a foolish mistake initially. (I really need to get my eyes checked again since I can’t read my own typing sometimes, or really small characters with a lot of strokes).
I asked my wife about this character last night, and she has never seen it before either. We both sensed that it is either something very archaic, or more than likely, something rather scientific, with a very limited audience of users. Since you are working with a Chinese flora course, that might explain how/why you came across it, whereas others (including dictionaries and IME’s) don’t quite recognize it (yet).
Anyway, I hope you can find the information you are looking for, not just with this word, but with all the courses you are working on, or supporting (and they are many !)
many thanks and greetings to your kind lady! I will take that character out… what good for to have a character that no one can type in…
unfortunatelly I don’t know how to replace it - what would be the radical/character for such “thick grass” - and when about plants, one definitely needs such radical, or? 