U+8399 "莙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

莙

U+8399 "莙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily refers to a type of aquatic plant, specifically the Brasenia schreberi, commonly known as watershield or Junsai in Japanese. This character is composed of the grass radical (艹) indicating its botanical nature, combined with the phonetic component 君 (jūn), and it appears in classical Chinese texts and modern usage primarily in botanical or literary contexts, though it is not among the most frequently used characters in everyday language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8399
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	莙
HTML Hex Encoding	莙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8E 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8399
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008399
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8399

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	D764
kCCCII	227E22
kCNS1986	2-3868
kCNS1992	2-3868
kCangjie	TSKR
kCantonese	gwan1
kCihaiT	1140.602
kDaeJaweon	1493.180
kDefinition	species of water plant
kEACC	227E22
kFanqie	居筠舉云渠殞
kFourCornerCode	4460.7
kGB3	7324
kGB8	9434
kHanYu	53225.120
kHanyuPinyin	53225.120:jūn
kIICore	CG
kIRGDaeJaweon	1493.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53225.120
kIRGKangXi	1034.140
kIRG_GSource	G3-6938
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D764
kIRG_JSource	J1-582C
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6DC9
kIRG_KSource	K2-5774
kIRG_TSource	T2-3868
kJapanese	キンゴンギンクンウン
kTGH	2013:6956
kJapaneseKun	MO
kJapaneseOn	KIN GIN KUN UN
kJis1	5612
kKangXi	1034.140
kMainlandTelegraph	5483
kMandarin	jūn
kMatthews	1717
kMojiJoho	MJ021999 MJ021999:E0101 MJ022000:E0102
kMorohashi	31057:E0102
kPhonetic	722
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22327+140.3.7
kRSUnicode	140.7
kSBGY	105.32 111.42 276.24
kSMSZD2003Index	583.03
kSMSZD2003Readings	jūn粵gwan1
kTGHZ2013	190.010:jūn
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	324:174
kXHC1983	0624.040:jūn