U+83F1 "菱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
菱
U+83F1 "菱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the water chestnut plant, specifically the species Trapa natans or its edible seed. In modern usage, it commonly refers to the diamond-shaped water caltrop, and the character is also used in compound terms for rhombus shapes or lozenge patterns in East Asian languages, including Japanese where it appears in words like "hishi" and is a component in the name of the Japanese crest "mitsubishi." This character is composed of the radical for grass, signifying its botanical nature, alongside a phonetic component, and it holds cultural significance in cuisine and symbolism across China, Japan, and Korea.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+83F1 |
| 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 | 菱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 菱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8F 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x83F1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000083F1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u83f1 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B5D9 |
| kCCCII | 21553E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-615F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-615F |
| kCangjie | TGCE |
| kCantonese | ling4 |
| kCihaiT | 1149.101 |
| kCowles | 2373 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1498.030 |
| kDefinition | water-chestnut, water caltrop |
| kEACC | 21553E |
| kFanqie | 力膺 |
| kFenn | 543K |
| kFennIndex | 312.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4440.7 |
| kGB0 | 3366 |
| kGB1 | 3366 |
| kGSR | 0898g |
| kHangul | 능:0 릉:0N |
| kHanYu | 53229.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53229.010:líng |
| kHKGlyph | 3478 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1498.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53229.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1039.200 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4162 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B5D9 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4929 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D9CB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5754 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-615F |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6531 |
| kJapanese | リョウ ひし |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2199 |
| kJapaneseKun | HISHI |
| kJapaneseOn | RYOU |
| kJis0 | 4109 |
| kKangXi | 1039.200 |
| kKorean | LUNG |
| kLau | 1901 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5480 |
| kMandarin | líng |
| kMatthews | 4065 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1584 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022157 MJ022157:E0101 MJ022160:E0102 MJ022159:E0103 MJ022158:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 31219:E0104 |
| kNelson | 3977 |
| kPhonetic | 810 1519 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3483+140.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.8 |
| kSBGY | 199.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 586.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | líng粵ling4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5480 |
| kTang | *liəng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 226.170:líng |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | lăng |
| kXerox | 257:161 |
| kXHC1983 | 0719.020:líng |