U+83E8 "菨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

菨

U+83E8 "菨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or historical Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of water plant or aquatic herb, often associated with the water celery or similar edible aquatic vegetables in classical texts. Its usage is largely confined to ancient literature or specialized botanical contexts, and it is not commonly employed in modern standard Chinese. The character is composed of the grass radical representing plants, combined with a phonetic component, and its appearance in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode ensures digital representation for scholarly study and textual preservation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+83E8
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	菨
HTML Hex Encoding	菨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8F 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x83E8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000083E8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u83e8

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

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kCCCII	227E49
kCNS1986	2-3F46
kCNS1992	2-3F46
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kCantonese	zip3
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kGB5	7253
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kHanyuPinyin	53239.010:jiē,shà
kIRGDaeJaweon	1497.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53239.010
kIRGKangXi	1038.340
kIRG_GSource	G5-6855
kIRG_HSource	HB2-DB61
kIRG_JSource	J1-583F
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6E4F
kIRG_KSource	K2-5831
kIRG_TSource	T2-3F46
kJapanese	ショウソウ
kJapaneseKun	ASAGI
kJapaneseOn	SHOU
kJis1	5631
kKangXi	1038.340
kMandarin	jiē
kMojiJoho	MJ022137 MJ022137:E0101 MJ022138:E0102
kMorohashi	31204:E0102
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22333+140.3.8
kRSUnicode	140.8
kSBGY	538.38
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	HMT