U+8385 "莅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

莅

U+8385 "莅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to attend" or "to be present at," often used in formal or classical contexts such as "莅临" (lìlín), which means to grace an event with one's presence, especially when referring to a dignitary or official arriving at a ceremony or meeting. It is composed of the radical for grass or plant (艹) and the phonetic component "位" (wèi), blending its semantic hint of being positioned or situated with a natural element. In modern usage, this character appears in written Chinese for respectful invitations or announcements regarding high-ranking guests, and it is also a relatively rare surname in East Asia. Its stroke count is ten, and it belongs to the standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character set, supporting traditional and simplified scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8385
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	莅
HTML Hex Encoding	莅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8E 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8385
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008385
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8385

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	227E36
kCNS1986	E-385D
kCNS1992	3-385D
kCangjie	TOYT
kCantonese	lei6
kCihaiT	1139.603
kDaeJaweon	1492.190
kDefinition	attend, be present; arrive at
kEACC	2D555B
kFanqie	力至
kFennIndex	298.04
kFourCornerCode	4421.8
kGB0	6116
kGB1	6116
kGSR	0520b
kHangul	리:1N
kHanYu	53221.040
kHanyuPinyin	53221.040:lì
kIICore	CG
kIRGDaeJaweon	1492.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53221.040
kIRGKangXi	1033.110
kIRG_GSource	G0-5D30
kIRG_HSource	H-8F53
kIRG_JSource	J0-682E
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6DD3
kIRG_KSource	K1-5F5F
kIRG_TSource	T3-385D
kJapanese	リルイリツリチのぞむ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:4435
kJapaneseKun	NOZOMU
kJapaneseOn	RI REI
kJis0	7214
kKangXi	1033.110
kKorean	LI
kMainlandTelegraph	5444
kMandarin	lì
kMatthews	3912
kMeyerWempe	1532
kMojiJoho	MJ021962 MJ021962:E0101 MJ021963:E0102
kMorohashi	31024:E0102
kPhonetic	1436
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6359+140.3.7
kRSUnicode	140.7
kSBGY	352.40
kSemanticVariant	U+6D96<kMatthews U+849E<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant	"莅" U+8385 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	584.05
kTaiwanTelegraph	5444
kTGHZ2013	218.030:lì
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"莅" U+8385 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "蒞" U+849E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GHJ
kXerox	324:117
kXHC1983	0696.020:lì