U+83A4 "莤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
莤
U+83A4 "莤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to a type of plant or herb, often associated with the artemisia species, and is used in classical texts to denote a plant used for medicinal or ritual purposes. In modern usage, it is considered a rare or obscure character, primarily found in specialized dictionaries or historical literature rather than in everyday language. Its structure includes the grass radical, indicating its botanical nature, and it is pronounced with varying readings in different Chinese dialects, such as "sù" in Mandarin based on phonetic reconstruction.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+83A4 |
| 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 | 莤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 莤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8E 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x83A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000083A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u83a4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D75F |
| kCCCII | 227D74 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3863 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3863 |
| kCangjie | TMCW |
| kCantonese | suk1 |
| kCihaiT | 1142.201 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1494.060 |
| kFanqie | 所六 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4460.1 |
| kGB3 | 7303 |
| kHanYu | 53215.130 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53215.130:sù,yóu |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1494.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53215.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1035.060 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6923 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D75F |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-022021 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6DEB |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5777 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3863 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6528 |
| kJapanese | シュク ユウ |
| kKangXi | 1035.060 |
| kKorean | CHEN |
| kMandarin | sù |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022021 MJ022021:E0100 MJ022022:E0101 |
| kMorohashi | 31071:E0101 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.7 |
| kSBGY | 453.55 |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kVietnamese | giậu |