U+820F "舏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+820F "舏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that appears in historical texts and dictionaries, though it has no commonly used modern meaning. Its structure combines the radical 舌 (tongue or speech) with 艹 (grass), suggesting a possible ancient association with taste, herbal remedies, or a specific plant name, but its precise definition remains obscure and unattested in contemporary usage. This character is primarily of interest to scholars of historical Chinese linguistics and paleography, as its limited occurrence in old compilations like the Kangxi Dictionary highlights the vast and sometimes enigmatic nature of the CJK character set.

General Properties

Code Point	U+820F
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	舏
HTML Hex Encoding	舏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x88 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x820F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000820F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u820f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII	252C77
kCangjie	HRVL
kCantonese	gau2
kHanYu	52942.010
kHanyuPinyin	52942.010:jiǔ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	52942.010
kIRGKangXi	1006.231
kIRG_GSource	GE-4923
kIRG_JSource	J1-566F
kIRG_TSource	T4-276E
kJapanese	キュウ ク
kJapaneseKun	NAMETORU
kJapaneseOn	KYUU KU
kJis1	5479
kKangXi	1006.231
kMandarin	jiǔ
kMojiJoho	MJ021349
kMorohashi	30279
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22288+135.6.2
kRSUnicode	135.2
kTotalStrokes	8