U+836B "荫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+836B "荫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly used in both Simplified and Traditional scripts, primarily meaning “shade” or “shelter,” often in the context of a shaded area provided by trees or foliage. It is composed of the radical for grass (艹) and a phonetic component, and it appears in words like “树荫” meaning “tree shade” or “荫蔽” meaning “to shelter or conceal.” This character carries connotations of protection, coolness, and refuge, and it is frequently used in literary and everyday contexts to describe physical shadows as well as metaphorical forms of patronage or cover.

General Properties

Code Point	U+836B
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	荫
HTML Hex Encoding	荫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8D 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x836B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000836B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u836b

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	27556E
kCangjie	TNLB
kCantonese	jam1
kDefinition	shade, shelter; protect
kEACC	27556E
kFourCornerCode	4422
kGB0	5081
kHanYu	53211.070
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53211.070
kIRGKangXi	1036.401
kIRG_GSource	G0-5271
kTGH	2013:1420
kKangXi	1036.401
kMainlandTelegraph	5593
kMandarin	yīn
kRSUnicode	140.7
kSMSZD2003Index	584.07
kTGHZ2013	436.100:yīn 438.100:yìn
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"蔭" U+852D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1377.010:yīn 1382.090:yìn