U+83E5 "菥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

菥

U+83E5 "菥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that falls under the "CJK Unified Ideographs" block, representing a specific glyph used in written Chinese and other East Asian languages. Its primary meaning is "shepherd's purse" (a type of edible wild plant, also known as Capsella bursa-pastoris), and it appears in classical botanical and literary contexts as well as in modern usage for this herb. The character combines the "grass" radical (艹, indicating a plant) with the phonetic component 析, which hints at its pronunciation (approximately xī in Mandarin). Though not as common as more widely used characters, it remains an important part of the lexicon for traditional Chinese medicine, culinary references, and historical texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+83E5
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	菥
HTML Hex Encoding	菥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8F 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x83E5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000083E5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u83e5

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	DB6F
kCCCII	227E72
kCNS1986	2-3F54
kCNS1992	2-3F54
kCangjie	TDHL
kCantonese	sik1
kCihaiT	1147.605
kDaeJaweon	1497.030
kDefinition	pennycress
kEACC	227E72
kFanqie	息移先擊
kFourCornerCode	4492.1
kGB0	6130
kGB1	6130
kHanYu	53230.070
kHanyuPinyin	53230.070:xī,sī
kIRGDaeJaweon	1497.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53230.070
kIRGKangXi	1038.300
kIRG_GSource	G0-5D3E
kIRG_HSource	HB2-DB6F
kIRG_JSource	J4-763F
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6E44
kIRG_KSource	K2-582F
kIRG_TSource	T2-3F54
kJapanese	セキシャクシ
kTGH	2013:7122
kJIS0213	2,86,31
kKangXi	1038.300
kMandarin	xī
kMojiJoho	MJ022133 MJ022133:E0101 MJ022134:E0102
kMorohashi	31200:E0102
kPhonetic	1192*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18503+140.3.8
kRSUnicode	140.8
kSBGY	048.17 520.16
kSMSZD2003Index	588.07
kSMSZD2003Readings	xī粵sik1
kTGHZ2013	391.210:xī
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	321:061