U+83BF "莿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
莿
U+83BF "莿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily refers to a type of thorn or spine, often associated with plants like the barberry or other thorny shrubs. In classical and modern Chinese usage, it can denote the thorn itself or be used in compound words related to prickly vegetation. The character is composed of the radical for grass or plant and a phonetic component, reflecting its botanical context. It is less common in everyday Mandarin but appears in specialized vocabulary and literary references.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+83BF |
| 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 | 莿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 莿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8E 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x83BF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000083BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u83bf |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | DB6C |
| kCCCII | 227E6A |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3F51 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3F51 |
| kCangjie | TDBN |
| kCantonese | ci3 |
| kCihaiT | 1142.301 |
| kCowles | 4856 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1495.060 |
| kDefinition | thorn |
| kEACC | 227E6A |
| kFanqie | 七賜 |
| kFennIndex | 588.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4492.0 |
| kGB5 | 7237 |
| kHangul | 자:1N |
| kHanYu | 53231.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53231.060:cì |
| kIICore | CT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1495.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53231.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1036.430 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-6845 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-DB6C |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7A7B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6E5F |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6A7D |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3F51 |
| kJapanese | シ セキ シャク とげ のぎ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:7123 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,90,91 |
| kJapaneseKun | TOGE |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI SEKI SHAKU |
| kJis1 | 5621 |
| kKangXi | 1036.430 |
| kKorean | CA |
| kMandarin | cì |
| kMatthews | 6986 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3547 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022057 MJ022057:E0101 MJ022058:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31134:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 161 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+15057+140.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.8 |
| kSBGY | 347.32 383.05 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+673F<kMatthews |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+523A<kMeyerWempe |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9793 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 056.030:cì |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 317:056 |