U+82CB "苋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+82CB "苋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of edible amaranth plant, specifically the species Amaranthus mangostanus or Amaranthus tricolor, commonly known as Chinese spinach or edible amaranth in English. In modern Chinese, it is primarily used in the word "苋菜" (xiàn cài), referring to a leafy green vegetable with red or green leaves that is widely cultivated in East Asia for its nutritious, tender stems and leaves, often stir fried or used in soups. The character's structure combines the "艹" grass radical on top with a phonetic component below, reflecting its botanical meaning. This logogram is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, encoding a Han character that has consistent semantic usage across these languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+82CB
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 苋
HTML Hex Encoding 苋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x8B 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x82CB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000082CB
C/C++/Java Escape \u82cb

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 27552A
kCangjie TBHU
kCantonese jin6
kDefinition amaranth
kEACC 27552A
kFourCornerCode 4421
kGB0 6040
kHanYu 53180.100
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53180.100
kIRGKangXi 1022.181
kIRG_GSource G0-5C48
kTGH 2013:3667
kKangXi 1022.181
kMainlandTelegraph 5454
kMandarin xiàn
kRSUnicode 140.4
kSMSZD2003Index 574.13
kTGHZ2013 399.110:xiàn
kTotalStrokes 7
kTraditionalVariant "莧" U+83A7 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1251.010:xiàn