U+830A "茊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+830A "茊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the nettle plant or a type of herbaceous grass. In modern East Asian languages, it is used in classical texts as a noun for certain plants, though it is relatively rare in contemporary usage outside of specialized botanical or historical contexts. The character consists of the radical for grass (艹) combined with the component that suggests a phonetic or semantic clue, and its stroke count and structure align with standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) encoding conventions. As part of the Unicode standard, it ensures consistent digital representation across systems handling historic or obscure Chinese characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+830A
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	茊
HTML Hex Encoding	茊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8C 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x830A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000830A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u830a

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

kCangjie	TOM
kCantonese	zi1
kHanYu	53193.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53193.110
kIRGKangXi	1027.010
kIRG_GSource	GE-4940
kIRG_JSource	J1-5761
kIRG_TSource	T4-2B3D
kJapanese	シ ジ しげる
kJapaneseKun	KOKO
kJapaneseOn	SHI JI
kJis1	5565
kKangXi	1027.010
kMandarin	zī
kMojiJoho	MJ021756 MJ021756:E0101 MJ021755:E0102
kMorohashi	30842:E0102
kPhonetic	1506*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22310+140.3.5
kRSUnicode	140.5
kTotalStrokes	8