U+8421 "萡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8421 "萡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and obscure Chinese character, primarily used in classical or historical texts rather than in modern everyday language. It belongs to the broader set of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs and is pronounced "bó" in Mandarin, though its exact meaning and usage are not well-documented in standard dictionaries. This character likely functions as a phonetic or semantic component in specific names, ancient writings, or specialized contexts, highlighting the depth and complexity of the CJK character repertoire. Its rarity underscores the vast scope of the Unicode standard, which seeks to encode even the most obscure characters from historical and regional scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8421
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	萡
HTML Hex Encoding	萡
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x90 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8421
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008421
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8421

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

kCCCII	227E45
kCNS1986	E-6638
kCNS1992	3-6638
kCangjie	TEHA
kCantonese	bok6
kEACC	227E45
kHanYu	53240.011
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53240.011
kIRGKangXi	1042.261
kIRG_GSource	GE-496D
kIRG_HSource	H-8E67
kIRG_TSource	T3-6638
kIRG_VSource	V1-6537
kKangXi	1042.261
kMandarin	bo
kPhonetic	1078*
kRSUnicode	140.8
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	H
kVietnamese	bạc