U+83BA "莺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
莺
U+83BA "莺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the nightingale or a type of warbler, often associated with elegance and the arrival of spring in classical poetry and art. It is composed of a grass radical component combined with a phonetic element, reflecting its origin as a pictophonetic compound within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set. In modern usage, the character appears in various contexts, including names, literary works, and common phrases such as "莺歌燕舞" meaning "orioles sing and swallows dance" to describe a lively, joyful scene in nature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+83BA |
| 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 | 莺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 莺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8E 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x83BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000083BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u83ba |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276247 |
| kCangjie | TBPM |
| kCantonese | ang1 |
| kDefinition | oriole, green finch; Sylvia species (various) |
| kEACC | 276247 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4412 |
| kGB0 | 6126 |
| kHanYu | 53225.100 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53225.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1036.401 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5D3A |
| kTGH | 2013:1831 |
| kKangXi | 1036.401 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7727 |
| kMandarin | yīng |
| kPhonetic | 1587* |
| kRSUnicode | 140.7 196'.6 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+2EE58 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 584.18 811.04 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 438.170:yīng |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "鶯" U+9DAF CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1385.040:yīng |