U+83EC "菬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+83EC "菬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character primarily used in classical texts and historical contexts, where it is believed to denote a type of aquatic plant or reed-like vegetation. It is composed of the radical for grass or plant (艹) and the phonetic component 召, which together indicate a plant associated with water environments, though its precise botanical identity is not well-documented in modern dictionaries. This character is not commonly used in contemporary Mandarin or other Chinese dialects, nor does it appear in standard frequency lists or everyday writing, making it a specialized glyph encountered mostly by scholars of ancient literature, inscriptions, or philological studies. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures its digital representation for academic and archival purposes, preserving access to nuanced historical terminology.

General Properties

Code Point U+83EC
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 菬
HTML Hex Encoding 菬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x8F 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x83EC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000083EC
C/C++/Java Escape \u83ec

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 DBA8
kCCCII 227E42
kCNS1986 2-3F6C
kCNS1992 2-3F6C
kCangjie TESR
kCantonese ciu4
kDaeJaweon 1497.110
kFanqie 昨焦 之少
kFourCornerCode 4416.2
kGB5 7258
kHanYu 53240.040
kHanyuPinyin 53240.040:qiáo,zhǎo
kIRGDaeJaweon 1497.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53240.040
kIRGKangXi 1039.080
kIRG_GSource G5-685A
kIRG_HSource HB2-DBA8
kIRG_JSource JMJ-022145
kIRG_TSource T2-3F6C
kJapanese ショウ ジョウ
kKangXi 1039.080
kMandarin qiáo
kMojiJoho MJ022145
kMorohashi 31208
kRSUnicode 140.8
kSBGY 147.42 297.20
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 HMT