U+83A5 "莥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
莥
U+83A5 "莥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, used for writing in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other historical and modern East Asian languages. This character is classified under the radical for "grass" or "plant" (艹), and it generally refers to a type of herb or plant, though its exact meaning in classical texts is rare and sometimes glossed as a kind of grass or a specific plant species. It is not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese, appearing mostly in ancient or specialized literature, and its pronunciation in Mandarin is typically rendered as "niǔ" or "nǒu," with a low frequency of use in everyday language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+83A5 |
| 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 | 莥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 莥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8E 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x83A5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000083A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u83a5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D770 |
| kCCCII | 253033 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3874 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3874 |
| kCangjie | TKHG |
| kCantonese | nau5 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1494.070 |
| kFanqie | 女久 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4421.5 |
| kGB3 | 7317 |
| kHanYu | 53223.130 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53223.130:niǔ,ròu |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1494.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53223.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1035.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6931 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D770 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-022023 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6DCD |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5778 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3874 |
| kJapanese | ジュウ ニュ ニュウ チュウ チュ キュウ グ ジク |
| kKangXi | 1035.070 |
| kMandarin | niǔ |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022023 |
| kMorohashi | 31072 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.7 |
| kSBGY | 321.34 |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |