U+848B "蒋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

蒋

U+848B "蒋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that functions both as a surname and a component in other words, primarily representing a type of plant known as water spinach or Ipomoea aquatica, though its most common modern usage is as the surname Jiang, which ranks among the most frequent family names in China. Historically, the character also referred to a kind of grass or a place name in ancient texts, and its simplified form reduces the number of strokes while maintaining the same semantic roots. In the standard Chinese writing system, it is classified under the radical for grass (艹) with a phonetic component, reflecting its botanical origin and phonetic role in the language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+848B
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	蒋
HTML Hex Encoding	蒋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x92 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x848B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000848B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u848b

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	275571
kCangjie	TLMI
kCantonese	zoeng1
kDefinition	surname; Hydropyrum latifolium
kEACC	275571
kFourCornerCode	4424.2
kGB0	2915
kHanYu	53253.150
kIICore	AGJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53253.150
kIRGKangXi	1047.671
kIRG_GSource	G0-3D2F
kIRG_JSource	J0-3E55
kJapanese	ショウかつぎこもまさ
kTGH	2013:2555
kJapaneseKun	MAKOMO HAGEMASU
kJapaneseOn	SHOU SOU
kJis0	3053
kKangXi	1047.671
kKorean	CANG
kMainlandTelegraph	5592
kMandarin	jiǎng
kMojiJoho	MJ022433 MJ022433:E0101 MJ022434:E0102
kMorohashi	H527 H527:E0101
kPhonetic	112*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2493+140.3.10
kRSUnicode	140.9
kSMSZD2003Index	592.07
kTGHZ2013	167.100:jiǎng
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"蔣" U+8523 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GJ
kXHC1983	0560.060:jiǎng