U+82FC "苼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+82FC "苼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the grass radical and a phonetic component, with its traditional Chinese pronunciation often given as "shēng" in Mandarin. This character is historically rare and primarily appears in classical Chinese texts, where it can denote a type of vegetable or plant, though its exact meaning has become somewhat obscure over time. In modern contexts, it is occasionally used in personal names or in specialized calligraphy, serving as a legacy character within the extensive CJK Unihan repertoire rather than as a common everyday glyph.

General Properties

Code Point	U+82FC
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	苼
HTML Hex Encoding	苼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8B 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x82FC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000082FC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u82fc

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	252F35
kCNS1986	E-2E6F
kCNS1992	3-2E6F
kCangjie	THQM
kCantonese	sang1
kDaeJaweon	1485.030
kGB3	7249
kHanYu	53193.030
kHanyuPinyin	53193.030:shēng,ruí
kIRGDaeJaweon	1485.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53193.030
kIRGKangXi	1025.130
kIRG_GSource	G3-6851
kIRG_HSource	H-FBE9
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-021724
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6D7E
kIRG_KSource	K2-573C
kIRG_TSource	T3-2E6F
kJapanese	ソウ ショウ ズイ
kKangXi	1025.130
kMandarin	shēng
kMojiJoho	MJ021724
kMorohashi	30826
kPhonetic	1130*
kRSUnicode	140.5
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	H