U+83BC "莼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
莼
U+83BC "莼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of aquatic plant known as the water shield, a leafy perennial herb commonly found in ponds and slow-moving waters across East Asia. This character, which is an alternative form of 蒓, is often associated with traditional cuisine, particularly in Chinese and Japanese dishes where the young, gelatinous leaves of the Brasenia schreberi plant are used in soups and salads. Its usage appears in classical literature and modern contexts to denote both the plant itself and, by extension, the gentle, slippery texture of its edible parts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+83BC |
| 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 | 莼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 莼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8E 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x83BC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000083BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u83bc |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 29243A |
| kCangjie | TVMU |
| kCantonese | seon4 |
| kDefinition | an edible water plant-brasenia |
| kEACC | 29243A |
| kFourCornerCode | 4411 |
| kGB0 | 6127 |
| kHanYu | 53227.040 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53227.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1036.401 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5D3B |
| kTGH | 2013:4446 |
| kKangXi | 1036.401 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5573 |
| kMandarin | chún |
| kPhonetic | 269* |
| kRSUnicode | 140.7 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 585.01 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 054.020:chún |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "蒓" U+8493 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "蓴" U+84F4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0171.050:chún |