U+83B0 "莰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+83B0 "莰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a phonetic component or appears in transliterations, though it is not a common standalone character in modern standard Mandarin. Its meaning is often associated with a type of plant or grass, as suggested by its radical "艹" which signifies vegetation, and it is sometimes used in chemical contexts, such as representing the word "camphane" in specialized terminology. This character is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, intended to encode characters from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, and it is read as "kǎn" in Mandarin, with limited usage in historical or technical texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+83B0
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 莰
HTML Hex Encoding 莰
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x8E 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x83B0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000083B0
C/C++/Java Escape \u83b0

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 D774
kCCCII 227D72
kCNS1986 2-3878
kCNS1992 2-3878
kCangjie TGNO
kCantonese ham2
kDefinition bornane, camphane
kEACC 227D72
kFourCornerCode 4418.2
kGB0 6108
kGB1 6108
kHanYu 53214.090
kHanyuPinyin 53214.090:kǎn
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53214.090
kIRGKangXi 1036.401
kIRG_GSource G0-5D28
kIRG_HSource HB2-D774
kIRG_TSource T2-3878
kIRG_VSource V0-4242
kTGH 2013:6949
kKangXi 1036.401
kMandarin kǎn
kRSUnicode 140.7
kSMSZD2003Index 584.01
kSMSZD2003Readings kǎn粵ham2
kTGHZ2013 193.030:kǎn
kTotalStrokes 10
kUnihanCore2020 GHMT
kVietnamese khóm khúm
kXerox 321:057
kXHC1983 0632.080:kǎn