U+82CA "苊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+82CA "苊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that falls under the radical for grass or plant (艹) and is primarily used in the context of organic chemistry, where it denotes the chemical compound acenaphthene. In modern standard Mandarin, it is pronounced "è" and is part of a set of characters created or repurposed in the 20th century to precisely name hydrocarbon derivatives and other chemical substances. While not common in everyday Chinese writing, it plays a specific role in scientific and technical literature, particularly in chemistry textbooks and research papers.

General Properties

Code Point	U+82CA
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	苊
HTML Hex Encoding	苊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8B 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x82CA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000082CA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u82ca

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	252F24
kCangjie	TMSU
kCantonese	ak1
kDefinition	acenaphthene
kEACC	705C43
kFourCornerCode	4421
kGB0	6035
kGB1	6035
kHanYu	53179.110
kHanyuPinyin	53179.110:è
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53179.110
kIRGKangXi	1022.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-5C43
kIRG_HSource	H-99B0
kIRG_TSource	T4-277B
kTGH	2013:6571
kKangXi	1022.181
kMandarin	è
kRSUnicode	140.4
kSMSZD2003Index	574.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	è粵aak1
kTGHZ2013	087.020:è
kTotalStrokes	7
kUnihanCore2020	GH
kXerox	321:041
kXHC1983	0284.040:è