U+8380 "莀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8380 "莀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that falls under the category of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs, specifically representing a plant or grass-related term, often associated with the meaning of overgrown weeds or a lush, dense growth of vegetation. Its structure combines the radical for grass (艹) with a phonetic component, and while its precise usage in classical texts is limited, it appears in some historical dictionaries and specialized botanical contexts. This character is not commonly employed in modern writing, making it more of a scholarly or archival interest within the field of paleography or Sinology.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8380
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	莀
HTML Hex Encoding	莀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8E 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8380
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008380
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8380

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	252F7B
kCNS1986	E-3850
kCNS1992	3-3850
kCangjie	XTMMV
kCantonese	san4
kDefinition	to farm; a farmer; agriculture
kGB5	7212
kHanYu	53216.010
kHanyuPinyin	53216.010:chén,nóng
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53216.010
kIRGKangXi	1032.250
kIRG_GSource	G5-682C
kIRG_JSource	J1-5823
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6DED
kIRG_KSource	K2-5766
kIRG_TSource	T3-3850
kJapanese	シン ドウ ノウ
kJapaneseOn	SHIN DOU NOU
kJis1	5603
kKangXi	1032.250
kMandarin	chén
kMatthews	4768
kMojiJoho	MJ021954 MJ021954:E0101 MJ021955:E0102
kMorohashi	31012:E0102
kPhonetic	1129*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22324+140.3.7 C+22324+161.7.3
kRSUnicode	140.7
kSemanticVariant	U+8FB2<kMatthews
kTotalStrokes	10