U+829F "芟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
芟
U+829F "芟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "to mow," "to cut down," or "to remove," often used in agricultural contexts to describe the action of cutting grass or weeds. It is composed of the radical for grass (艹) and the phonetic component shan, reflecting its connection to vegetation and removal. In classical Chinese literature, it can also carry extended meanings such as "to eliminate" or "to eradicate," sometimes applied metaphorically to suppressing or rooting out undesirable elements. The character is included in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, supporting its use in digital text across various East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+829F |
| 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 | 芟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 芟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8A 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x829F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000829F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u829f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AADF |
| kCCCII | 21545B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4F42 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4F42 |
| kCangjie | THNE |
| kCantonese | saam1 |
| kCihaiT | 1124.401 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1477.060 |
| kDefinition | mow, cut; weed out; scythe |
| kEACC | 21545B |
| kFanqie | 所銜 |
| kFenn | 399H |
| kFennIndex | 435.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4440.7 |
| kGB0 | 6047 |
| kGB1 | 6047 |
| kGSR | 0610a |
| kHangul | 삼:0N |
| kHanYu | 53184.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53184.020:shān,wěi |
| kHKGlyph | 3411 |
| kIICore | AGTHKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1477.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53184.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1019.170 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5C4F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AADF |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-676C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E1B9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5F37 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4F42 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-645C |
| kJapanese | サン セン イ かる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3674 |
| kJapaneseKun | KARU |
| kJapaneseOn | SAN SEN |
| kJis0 | 7176 |
| kKangXi | 1019.170 |
| kKorean | SAM |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5348 |
| kMandarin | shān |
| kMatthews | 5635 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2591b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021547 MJ021547:E0101 MJ021548:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 30701:E0102 |
| kNelson | 3902 |
| kPhonetic | 1102 1240 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6327+79.4.3 C+6327+140.3.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.4 |
| kSBGY | 231.11 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+206B9<kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 572.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shān粵saam1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5348 |
| kTang | shram |
| kTGHZ2013 | 323.130:shān |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | sam |
| kXerox | 275:117 |
| kXHC1983 | 0997.030:shān |