U+83BB "莻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+83BB "莻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and relatively modern Chinese character that primarily appears in transliterations, most notably used to represent the sound "na" in the Japanese phonetic syllable "na" (as in the name 莻子, meaning "radish" or used in foreign loanwords), though its usage in standard Chinese is extremely limited. It belongs to the set of ideographs that were created or adapted to convey foreign sounds, and its radical component is the grass radical (艹), indicating a botanical association, while its overall structure combines elements related to plants and phonetic cues. In Unicode, it falls within the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is coded with a hexadecimal value of 83BB, representing a glyph that is seldom encountered in everyday text but occasionally surfaces in specialized linguistic or transliteration contexts.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
莻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
莻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE8 0x8E 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x83BB |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000083BB |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u83bb |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie |
TNSP |
| kCantonese |
jing4 |
| kDaeJaweon |
1500.350 |
| kDefinition |
late |
| kHanYu |
53226.121 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon |
1500.350 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
53226.121 |
| kIRGKangXi |
1036.401 |
| kIRG_GSource |
GK-6827 |
| kIRG_JSource |
JMJ-068044 |
| kIRG_KPSource |
KP1-39EB |
| kIRG_KSource |
K2-577C |
| kKangXi |
1036.401 |
| kKorean |
NUC |
| kMandarin |
gòng |
| kMojiJoho |
MJ068044 |
| kPseudoGB1 |
9313 |
| kRSUnicode |
140.7 |
| kTotalStrokes |
13 |