U+827C "艼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+827C "艼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that is a variant or component often found in historical or classical texts, rather than in common modern usage. It is composed of the radical for grass or plant, represented by the top component, combined with a phonetic element that suggests its pronunciation, typically read as "tǐng" or "dǐng" in Mandarin. The character's meaning is obscure and largely archaic, with one of its earliest attested uses being in ancient Chinese dictionaries like the "Shuowen Jiezi," where it is defined as a type of grass or a medicinal herb, possibly related to the aster or similar plants. Today, it rarely appears in standard Chinese vocabulary, making it of greater interest to scholars of historical linguistics and paleography than to everyday writers or readers of Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point U+827C
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 艼
HTML Hex Encoding 艼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x89 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x827C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000827C
C/C++/Java Escape \u827c

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

kBigFive CA4B
kCCCII 227B7B
kCNS1986 2-226B
kCNS1992 2-226B
kCangjie TMN
kCantonese ding2
kCihaiT 1123.302
kDaeJaweon 1475.110
kFanqie 他丁 他鼎
kFourCornerCode 4420.1
kGB5 7125
kHanYu 53172.050
kHanyuPinyin 53172.050:tīng,dǐng
kIRGDaeJaweon 1475.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53172.050
kIRGKangXi 1017.050
kIRG_GSource G5-6739
kIRG_HSource HB2-CA4B
kIRG_JSource JMJ-021485
kIRG_KPSource KP1-6D05
kIRG_KSource K2-5674
kIRG_TSource T2-226B
kJapanese テイ チョウ
kKangXi 1017.050
kMandarin tīng
kMojiJoho MJ021485
kMorohashi 30644
kRSUnicode 140.2
kSBGY 197.19 320.08
kTotalStrokes 5
kUnihanCore2020 HMT