U+83AF "莯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+83AF "莯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (kanji in Japanese, hanja in Korean) that primarily functions as a rare or obscure glyph within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block. It is a compound character formed with the grass radical (艹) on top, suggesting a botanical or plant-related meaning, and the phonetic component 木 (mù, meaning "tree" or "wood") below. While its exact usage in classical or modern texts is limited, it generally refers to a type of herb or plant, and its pronunciation is typically given as "mù" in Mandarin Chinese. This character is not commonly encountered in everyday language, but it is included in the Unicode standard to ensure comprehensive coverage of historical and specialized Chinese writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+83AF
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 莯
HTML Hex Encoding 莯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x8E 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x83AF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000083AF
C/C++/Java Escape \u83af

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 D771
kCCCII 252F65
kCNS1986 2-3875
kCNS1992 2-3875
kCangjie TED
kCantonese ping4
kFourCornerCode 4439.4
kHanYu 53224.060
kHanyuPinyin 53224.060:mù
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53224.060
kIRGKangXi 1036.401
kIRG_GSource GE-4959
kIRG_HSource HB2-D771
kIRG_JSource JMJ-022043
kIRG_TSource T2-3875
kIRG_VSource V1-652B
kJapanese ボク モク
kKangXi 1036.401
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ022043
kMorohashi 31127
kRSUnicode 140.7
kTotalStrokes 10
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kVietnamese móc