U+840D "萍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

萍

U+840D "萍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "duckweed," a type of small aquatic plant often found floating on the surface of still water. In Chinese culture and classical literature, this character is frequently used symbolically to represent a drifting or unsettled life, as duckweed is rootless and easily carried by currents, evoking themes of impermanence and wandering. The character is composed of the radical for grass or plant (艹) and the phonetic component 平, which contributes to its pronunciation as "píng" in Mandarin. It appears in various compound words and idioms, such as 萍水相逢, which describes a brief, chance encounter between strangers, akin to pieces of duckweed drifting together temporarily on the water.

General Properties

Code Point	U+840D
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	萍
HTML Hex Encoding	萍
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x90 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x840D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000840D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u840d

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	B5D3
kCCCII	215534
kCNS1986	1-6159
kCNS1992	1-6159
kCangjie	TEMJ
kCantonese	ping4
kCihaiT	1147.201
kDaeJaweon	1500.010
kDefinition	duckweed; wandering, traveling
kEACC	215534
kFanqie	薄經
kFenn	36I
kFennIndex	416.02
kFourCornerCode	4414.9
kGB0	3828
kGB1	3828
kGSR	0825d
kHangul	평:0N
kHanYu	53239.100
kHanyuPinyin	53239.100:píng
kHKGlyph	3472
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1500.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53239.100
kIRGKangXi	1041.070
kIRG_GSource	G0-463C
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B5D3
kIRG_JSource	J0-684C
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F1B7
kIRG_KSource	K0-7843
kIRG_TSource	T1-6159
kIRG_VSource	V1-6536
kJapanese	ヘイビョウうきくさ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:2211
kJapaneseKun	UKIKUSA YOMOGI
kJapaneseOn	HEI
kJis0	7244
kKangXi	1041.070
kKorean	PHYENG
kLau	2517
kMainlandTelegraph	5493
kMandarin	píng
kMatthews	5307
kMeyerWempe	2384
kMojiJoho	MJ022214 MJ022214:E0101 MJ022215:E0102 MJ022216:E0103
kMorohashi	31266:E0102
kNelson	3963
kPhonetic	1058A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6389+140.3.8
kRSUnicode	140.8
kSBGY	197.49
kSMSZD2003Index	587.12
kSMSZD2003Readings	píng粵ping4
kTaiwanTelegraph	5493
kTang	bheng
kTGHZ2013	286.110:píng
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	bềnh
kXerox	256:243
kXHC1983	0883.030:píng