U+83B8 "莸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
莸
U+83B8 "莸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means a type of aromatic herb or plant, specifically referencing a fragrant mugwort or similar botanical species. It is a traditional and simplified Chinese character composed of the "grass" radical (艹) atop the phonetic component "尤," and it appears in classical texts and older literary works, though it is not commonly used in modern everyday Chinese. This character carries connotations of herbal fragrance or rustic greenery, and its usage is largely confined to specialized contexts such as historical linguistics, traditional Chinese medicine, or poetic references to wild flora.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+83B8 |
| 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 | 莸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 莸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8E 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x83B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000083B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u83b8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 292574 |
| kCangjie | TKHU |
| kCantonese | jau4 |
| kDefinition | Caryopteris divaricata |
| kEACC | 292574 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4421 |
| kGB0 | 6121 |
| kHanYu | 53223.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53223.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1036.401 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5D35 |
| kTGH | 2013:4439 |
| kKangXi | 1036.401 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5607 |
| kMandarin | yóu |
| kRSUnicode | 140.7 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 584.15 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 443.110:yóu |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "蕕" U+8555 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1397.100:yóu |