U+8493 "蒓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

蒓

U+8493 "蒓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that refers to a type of aquatic plant, specifically the water shield (Brasenia schreberi), which is an edible perennial herb commonly found in East Asian cuisine and traditional medicine. In simplified Chinese, it is often written as 莼, and its use in classical literature and botanical contexts highlights its cultural significance, particularly in regions like Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, where it is harvested for its gelatinous young leaves and stems. This character falls within the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a logograph that combines the radical for grass (艹) with phonetic components to convey meaning related to flora.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8493
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	蒓
HTML Hex Encoding	蒓
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x92 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8493
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008493
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8493

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	23243A
kCNS1986	E-4944
kCNS1992	3-4944
kCangjie	TVFU
kCantonese	seon4
kCihaiT	1161.603
kDaeJaweon	1509.120
kDefinition	Brasenia schreberi
kEACC	23243A
kFanqie	常倫
kGB1	6127
kHanYu	53274.120
kHanyuPinyin	53274.120:chún
kIRGDaeJaweon	1509.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53274.120
kIRGKangXi	1048.040
kIRG_GSource	G1-5D3B
kIRG_HSource	H-8F71
kIRG_JSource	J1-586B
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6EEF
kIRG_KSource	K2-5876
kIRG_TSource	T3-4944
kJapanese	ジュンぬなわ
kJapaneseKun	NUNAWA
kJapaneseOn	JUN SHUN
kJis1	5675
kKangXi	1048.040
kMandarin	chún
kMatthews	5931
kMojiJoho	MJ022442 MJ022442:E0101 MJ022443:E0102
kMorohashi	31545:E0102
kPhonetic	1271
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19744+140.3.10
kRSUnicode	140.10
kSBGY	107.09
kSemanticVariant	U+84F4<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant	"莼" U+83BC CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	592.16
kTaiwanTelegraph	5573
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	271:150