U+835A "荚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+835A "荚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a pod, specifically the seed vessel of a leguminous plant, such as a pea pod or bean pod. It is composed of the radical for grass or plant at the top and a phonetic component conveying uprightness or a small object, reflecting its herbaceous nature and botanical association. This character appears in both traditional and simplified Chinese writing systems, though its form is identical in both, and it is used in words related to legumes, fruits, and seed-bearing structures in agricultural and botanical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+835A
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	荚
HTML Hex Encoding	荚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8D 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x835A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000835A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u835a

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	275528
kCangjie	TKT
kCantonese	gaap3
kDefinition	pods of leguminous plants; pods
kEACC	275528
kFourCornerCode	4480
kGB0	2852
kHanYu	53202.040
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53202.040
kIRGKangXi	1031.381
kIRG_GSource	G0-3C54
kTGH	2013:4109
kKangXi	1031.381
kMainlandTelegraph	5453
kMandarin	jiá
kPhonetic	550*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14202+140.3.6
kRSUnicode	140.6
kSMSZD2003Index	581.04
kTGHZ2013	161.080:jiá
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"莢" U+83A2 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0541.140:jiá