U+8496 "蒖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8496 "蒖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character primarily used in classical literature, not commonly found in modern standard Mandarin. It belongs to the "grass radical" (艹) and is associated with meanings related to certain plants or botanical terms, though its precise definition is obscure and often depends on specific historical contexts. This character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block to preserve linguistic heritage, making it accessible for digital representation of ancient texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8496
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	蒖
HTML Hex Encoding	蒖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x92 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8496
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008496
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8496

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	253245
kCNS1986	E-4938
kCNS1992	3-4938
kCangjie	TJBC
kCantonese	zan1
kDaeJaweon	1509.170
kDefinition	plant name
kFanqie	側鄰
kGB3	7417
kHanYu	53267.030
kHanyuPinyin	53267.030:zhēn
kIRGDaeJaweon	1509.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53267.030
kIRGKangXi	1048.100
kIRG_GSource	G3-6A31
kIRG_HSource	H-94CB
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-022448
kIRG_TSource	T3-4938
kJapanese	シン
kJapaneseKun	ASAZA
kJapaneseOn	SHIN
kKangXi	1048.100
kMandarin	zhēn
kMojiJoho	MJ022448
kMorohashi	31550
kPhonetic	63*
kRSUnicode	140.10
kSBGY	101.24
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	H