U+831A "茚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+831A "茚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is used in the East Asian writing systems, particularly in standard Chinese. This character is not among the most common or frequently used characters in modern Chinese, but it has historical and regional significance. It is composed of the radical for grass or plant (艹) and a phonetic component, and its primary meaning is related to a type of plant or herb, often associated with indigo or a plant used for dyeing. In some contexts, it can also refer to a specific place name or a surname, and it appears in certain classical texts and classical Chinese literature, though it is rarely encountered in everyday contemporary writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+831A
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 茚
HTML Hex Encoding 茚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x8C 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0x831A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000831A
C/C++/Java Escape \u831a

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 227D58
kCangjie THPL
kCantonese jan3
kDefinition indene
kEACC 227D58
kFourCornerCode 4472
kGB0 6065
kGB1 6065
kHanYu 53194.100
kHanyuPinyin 53194.100:yìn
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53194.100
kIRGKangXi 1027.260
kIRG_GSource G0-5C61
kIRG_HSource H-8F42
kIRG_JSource JMJ-021771
kIRG_TSource T4-2F5D
kJapanese イン
kTGH 2013:3866
kKangXi 1027.260
kMandarin yìn
kMojiJoho MJ021771
kMorohashi 30869
kRSUnicode 140.6
kSMSZD2003Index 577.20
kSMSZD2003Readings yìn粵jan3
kTGHZ2013 438.090:yìn
kTotalStrokes 8
kUnihanCore2020 GH
kXerox 321:050
kXHC1983 1383.010:yìn