U+8383 "莃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
莃
U+8383 "莃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, representing a plant or herb. Its composition combines the radical "艹" (grass or plant) with the phonetic component "希" (xi), and it is traditionally pronounced as "xī" in Mandarin. Historically, this character refers to a type of medicinal herb, often identified in classical Chinese texts as the "莃草," which was used in ancient herbal remedies for its purported healing properties, though it is rarely used in modern standard Chinese or Japanese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8383 |
| 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 | 莃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 莃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8E 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8383 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008383 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8383 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D769 |
| kCCCII | 227E3A |
| kCNS1986 | 2-386D |
| kCNS1992 | 2-386D |
| kCangjie | TKKB |
| kCantonese | hei1 |
| kCihaiT | 1142.102 |
| kFanqie | 香衣 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4422.7 |
| kGB5 | 7226 |
| kHanYu | 53222.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53222.020:xī |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53222.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1033.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-683A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D769 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-021959 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6E04 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5769 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-386D |
| kJapanese | キ ケ |
| kKangXi | 1033.050 |
| kMandarin | xī |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021959 |
| kMorohashi | 31018 |
| kPhonetic | 451* |
| kRSUnicode | 140.7 |
| kSBGY | 065.40 |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |