U+8386 "莆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
莆
U+8386 "莆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily refers to a type of aquatic plant, specifically the water chestnut or similar reeds and rushes, and it is also used in place names, most notably as an abbreviation for Putian, a city in Fujian province, China. In classical and modern Chinese, it can denote the plant's edible corm or the material for weaving mats, and it appears in compound words like "莆田" (Putian) to indicate the city's name. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block in the Unicode standard, representing a shared written form across these languages, though its usage and pronunciation may vary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8386 |
| 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 | 莆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 莆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8E 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8386 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008386 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8386 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B340 |
| kCCCII | 227D70 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5D26 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5D26 |
| kCangjie | TIJB |
| kCantonese | pou4 |
| kCihaiT | 1139.604 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1492.200 |
| kDefinition | a kind of legendary tree |
| kEACC | 2D555A |
| kFourCornerCode | 4422.7 |
| kGB0 | 3846 |
| kGB1 | 3846 |
| kGSR | 0102s |
| kHanYu | 53215.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53215.080:fǔ,pú |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1492.200 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53215.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1033.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-464E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B340 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7A76 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6DE1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-576B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5D26 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6524 |
| kJapanese | フ ブ ホ |
| kTGH | 2013:4428 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,90,86 |
| kJapaneseOn | FU HO BU |
| kJis1 | 5606 |
| kKangXi | 1033.120 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5455 |
| kMandarin | pú |
| kMatthews | 5393 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021964 MJ021964:E0101 MJ021965:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31025:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 386 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+15052+140.3.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.7 |
| kSBGY | 261.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 582.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | pú粵pou4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5455 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 288.110:pú |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kVietnamese | bo |
| kXerox | 273:326 |
| kXHC1983 | 0888.050:pú |