U+8388 "莈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8388 "莈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character composed of the grass radical on top and the phonetic component "末" below, though its precise meaning is obscure and it does not appear in modern standard Chinese dictionaries. It likely originates from historical or variant character forms, possibly representing a plant-related term or a phonetic loan in classical texts. Due to its extreme rarity, the character is primarily of interest to scholars of historical Chinese scripts and Unicode encoding, serving as a placeholder or artifact within the comprehensive CJK character set.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8388
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	莈
HTML Hex Encoding	莈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8E 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8388
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008388
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8388

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

kBigFive	D772
kCCCII	252F67
kCNS1986	2-3876
kCNS1992	2-3876
kCangjie	TENE
kCantonese	mut6
kFanqie	莫勃
kFourCornerCode	4434.7
kHanYu	53225.020
kHanyuPinyin	53225.020:mò
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53225.020
kIRGKangXi	1033.180
kIRG_GSource	GE-4955
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D772
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-021968
kIRG_TSource	T2-3876
kJapanese	ボツ モチ
kKangXi	1033.180
kMandarin	mò
kMojiJoho	MJ021968
kMorohashi	31031
kRSUnicode	140.7
kSBGY	479.47
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	HMT