U+83FD "菽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
菽
U+83FD "菽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily refers to legumes or beans, specifically the soybean or pulse plants in classical and modern Chinese. Composed of the radical for grass or plants (艹) atop the phonetic component 叔, it appears in ancient texts like the Classic of Poetry to denote edible beans, and in contemporary usage it is often found in terms such as "豆菽" (beans and grains) or "菽粟" (grain crops). This character symbolizes agricultural staples, particularly in East Asian contexts, and carries a historical and nutritional significance tied to basic sustenance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+83FD |
| 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 | 菽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 菽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x83FD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000083FD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u83fd |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B5E0 |
| kCCCII | 232223 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6166 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6166 |
| kCangjie | TYFE |
| kCantonese | suk6 |
| kCihaiT | 1146.304 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1499.070 |
| kDefinition | beans and peas, collectively |
| kEACC | 232223 |
| kFanqie | 式竹 |
| kFenn | 123K |
| kFennIndex | 465.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4494.7 |
| kGB0 | 6136 |
| kGB1 | 6136 |
| kGSR | 1031g |
| kHangul | 숙:0N |
| kHanYu | 53232.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53232.090:shū,jiāo |
| kHKGlyph | 3484 |
| kIICore | AGTHKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1499.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53232.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1040.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5D44 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B5E0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6843 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E4C4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-625D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6166 |
| kJapanese | シュク ショウ まめ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:4752 |
| kJapaneseKun | MAME |
| kJapaneseOn | SHUKU |
| kJis0 | 7235 |
| kKangXi | 1040.140 |
| kKorean | SWU |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5486 |
| kMandarin | shū |
| kMatthews | 5884 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2787f |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022184 MJ022184:E0101 MJ022185:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31241:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 1259 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6380+140.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.8 |
| kSBGY | 456.41 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 587.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shū粵suk6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5486 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 340.130:shū |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 272:323 |
| kXHC1983 | 1063.030:shū |