U+838E "莎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
莎
U+838E "莎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents a type of sedge or grass, often referring to plants in the Cyperaceae family, such as nutgrass or Chinese water chestnut. It is commonly used in East Asian languages, particularly in Mandarin and Japanese, where it appears in compound words like "莎草" (suō cǎo, meaning sedge) and in personal names or transliterations, such as the name "莎拉" (shā lā) for Sarah. The character carries a phonetic component derived from "沙" (shā, meaning sand) and a semantic radical related to plants, reflecting its botanical association.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+838E |
| 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 | 莎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 莎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8E 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x838E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000838E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u838e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B2EF |
| kCCCII | 215524 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5C74 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5C74 |
| kCangjie | TEFH |
| kCantonese | so1 |
| kCihaiT | 1140.302 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1493.050 |
| kDefinition | kind of sedge grass, used anciently for raincoats |
| kEACC | 215524 |
| kFanqie | 蘇禾 所加 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4412.9 |
| kGB0 | 4115 |
| kGB1 | 4115 |
| kGSR | 0016f |
| kHangul | 사:0N |
| kHanYu | 53224.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53224.090:suō,shā,suī |
| kHKGlyph | 3453 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1493.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53224.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1033.320 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-492F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B2EF |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6835 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E0F2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5E6D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5C74 |
| kJapanese | サ シャ スイ はますげ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:4442 |
| kJapaneseKun | HAMASUGE |
| kJapaneseOn | SA SHA |
| kJis0 | 7221 |
| kKangXi | 1033.320 |
| kKorean | SA |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5446 |
| kMandarin | shā |
| kMatthews | 5458 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2844c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021978 MJ021978:E0101 MJ021979:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31040:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 1096 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6366+140.3.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.7 |
| kSBGY | 162.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 582.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | suō粵so1 shā粵saa1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5446 |
| kTang | suɑ |
| kTGHZ2013 | 322.120:shā 353.130:suō |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 257:317 |
| kXHC1983 | 0991.030:shā 1102.050:suō |