U+839A "莚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
莚
U+839A "莚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in classical or literary contexts, denoting meanings related to a mat, a banquet, or the act of extending or spreading out, often associated with the character "筵" which refers to a seating mat used at formal feasts. Its structure combines the grass radical (艹) on top, indicating a plant or grass association, with a phonetic component that suggests its pronunciation in Mandarin as "yán" or "xiàn" depending on usage. This ideograph appears in historical texts and traditional vocabulary, but it is rarely used in modern everyday Chinese, making it a specialized character for those studying classical literature or historical documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+839A |
| 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 | 莚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 莚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8E 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x839A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000839A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u839a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D77A |
| kCCCII | 232236 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3F6A |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3F6A |
| kCangjie | TNKM |
| kCantonese | jin4 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1493.190 |
| kDefinition | bamboo mat; feast, banquet |
| kEACC | 232236 |
| kFanqie | 以然 于線 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4440.1 |
| kGB5 | 7190 |
| kHangul | 연:1N |
| kHanYu | 53206.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53206.020:yán |
| kIICore | CJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1493.190 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53206.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1034.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-677A |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D77A |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-682F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6E08 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-674C |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3F6A |
| kJapanese | エン むしろ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | MUSHIRO |
| kJapaneseOn | EN |
| kJis0 | 7215 |
| kKangXi | 1034.160 |
| kKorean | YEN |
| kMandarin | yán |
| kMatthews | 7345 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022001 MJ022001:E0101 MJ022003:E0102 MJ022002:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 31059:E0103 |
| kNelson | 3400 3948 |
| kPhonetic | 1578* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6360+140.3.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.7 |
| kSBGY | 137.44 412.03 |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |