U+83E3 "菣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
菣
U+83E3 "菣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character pronounced "qín" in Mandarin, and it represents a type of medicinal herb or plant, specifically identified in classical texts as the "bitter herb" or a variety of Artemisia, often associated with the plant used in traditional Chinese medicine for its cooling and detoxifying properties. This character is composed of the radical for grass or herb at the top and a phonetic component underneath, placing it within the broader category of ideographs in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters originally used in East Asian writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+83E3 |
| 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 | 菣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 菣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8F 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x83E3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000083E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u83e3 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | DB6B |
| kCCCII | 227E5C |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3F50 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3F50 |
| kCangjie | TSLE |
| kCantonese | jan3 |
| kCihaiT | 1147.603 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1497.010 |
| kFanqie | 去刃 苦甸 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4474.7 |
| kHanYu | 53231.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53231.050:qìn |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1497.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53231.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1038.250 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4960 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-DB6B |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-022131 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6E1F |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-582D |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3F50 |
| kJapanese | キン ケン |
| kKangXi | 1038.250 |
| kMandarin | qìn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022131 |
| kMorohashi | 31196 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.8 |
| kSBGY | 393.21 408.03 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |