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

Code Point U+83BB
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 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

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

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