U+835C "荜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
荜
U+835C "荜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to certain types of climbing plants or vines, notably the genus Piper, such as the long pepper. In classical and modern Chinese usage, it often appears in compound terms, like "荜茇" (bìbá), the name for the long pepper spice, and is also used to describe a wicker or bamboo fence, as in "荜门" (bìmén), meaning a humble or rustic dwelling, a common metaphor for a simple home. The character is composed of the grass radical (艹) over the phonetic component "毕" (bì), reflecting its botanical association and its place within the broader system of CJK ideographs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+835C |
| 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 | 荜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 荜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8D 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x835C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000835C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u835c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 29247D |
| kCangjie | TPPJ |
| kCantonese | bat1 |
| kDefinition | species of bean; Piper longum |
| kEACC | 29247D |
| kFourCornerCode | 4440 |
| kGB0 | 6074 |
| kHanYu | 53202.100 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53202.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1031.381 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5C6A |
| kTGH | 2013:4112 |
| kKangXi | 1031.381 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5598 |
| kMandarin | bì |
| kRSUnicode | 140.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 581.16 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 018.210:bì |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "蓽" U+84FD CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0060.110:bì |