U+82C7 "苇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+82C7 "苇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of reed or rush, specifically the common reed plant *Phragmites australis* or similar marsh grasses, often used in traditional contexts for weaving mats, baskets, or thatching. In modern Chinese, it is a simplified form of the traditional character "葦" and appears in words like "芦苇" (lúwěi), meaning "reed." The character combines the radical for grass (艹) with a phonetic component (韦), reflecting its botanical meaning and historical usage in East Asian writing systems dating back to ancient Chinese script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+82C7
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	苇
HTML Hex Encoding	苇
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8B 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0x82C7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000082C7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u82c7

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	27554D
kCangjie	TQS
kCantonese	wai5
kDefinition	reed
kEACC	27554D
kFourCornerCode	4452
kGB0	4613
kHanYu	53178.030
kHanyuPinlu	wěi(32)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53178.030
kIRGKangXi	1022.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-4E2D
kTGH	2013:663
kKangXi	1022.181
kMainlandTelegraph	5517
kMandarin	wěi
kPhonetic	1433*
kRSUnicode	140.4
kSMSZD2003Index	574.12
kTGHZ2013	382.210:wěi
kTotalStrokes	7
kTraditionalVariant	"葦" U+8466 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1197.020:wěi