U+83E0 "菠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+83E0 "菠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and it means "spinach." This ideograph is composed of the radical for grass or plant, indicating its botanical association, and a phonetic component that suggests its pronunciation. In modern usage, it appears most commonly in the word "菠菜" (bō cài), the standard term for the leafy green vegetable spinach, and it is also found in some regional plant names or loanwords. Historically, the character was likely introduced along with the vegetable itself from Persia via the Silk Road, and its form has remained consistent across various historical scripts, making it a stable element in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified character set.

General Properties

Code Point	U+83E0
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	菠
HTML Hex Encoding	菠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8F 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x83E0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000083E0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u83e0

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

kBigFive	B5D4
kCCCII	215535
kCNS1986	1-615A
kCNS1992	1-615A
kCangjie	TEDE
kCantonese	bo1
kCihaiT	1147.505
kCowles	3350
kDaeJaweon	1496.200
kDefinition	spinach and similar greens
kEACC	215535
kFenn	537aG
kFennIndex	417.02
kFourCornerCode	4414.7
kGB0	1804
kGB1	1804
kHangul	파:1N
kHanYu	53240.050
kHanyuPinyin	53240.050:bō
kHKGlyph	3473
kIICore	AGTHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	1496.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53240.050
kIRGKangXi	1038.190
kIRG_GSource	G0-3224
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B5D4
kIRG_JSource	J0-684A
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6E64
kIRG_KSource	K1-7172
kIRG_TSource	T1-615A
kJapanese	ハ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:2212
kJapaneseKun	KARANA
kJapaneseOn	HA
kJis0	7242
kKangXi	1038.190
kKorean	PHA
kLau	131
kMainlandTelegraph	5474
kMandarin	bō
kMatthews	5315
kMeyerWempe	2435
kMojiJoho	MJ022126 MJ022126:E0101 MJ022127:E0102
kMorohashi	31190:E0102
kNelson	3968
kPhonetic	1075
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6387+140.3.8
kRSUnicode	140.8
kSMSZD2003Index	586.01
kSMSZD2003Readings	bō粵bo1
kTaiwanTelegraph	5474
kTGHZ2013	026.080:bō
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	GHJMT
kXerox	260:336
kXHC1983	0082.010:bō