U+8397 "莗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8397 "莗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or archaic Chinese character (hanzi) that falls within the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a logogram used in historical or classical texts. Its exact meaning is obscure and not well-documented in modern dictionaries, but it likely pertains to a type of plant or botanical concept, given its "艹" grass radical component. This character is seldom used in contemporary writing, appearing primarily in specialized or digital contexts for encoding ancient or esoteric terms, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures preservation for scholarly and linguistic purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8397
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	莗
HTML Hex Encoding	莗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8E 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8397
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008397
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8397

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	D773
kCCCII	227D6E
kCNS1986	2-3877
kCNS1992	2-3877
kCangjie	TJWJ
kCantonese	ce1
kDaeJaweon	1493.150
kFourCornerCode	4450.0
kHanYu	53215.070
kHanyuPinyin	53215.070:chē
kIRGDaeJaweon	1493.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53215.070
kIRGKangXi	1034.100
kIRG_GSource	GE-4956
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D773
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-021996
kIRG_KSource	K2-5773
kIRG_TSource	T2-3877
kJapanese	シャ
kKangXi	1034.100
kMandarin	chē
kMojiJoho	MJ021996
kMorohashi	31053
kRSUnicode	140.7
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	HMT