U+84B8 "蒸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蒸
U+84B8 "蒸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "to steam" or "steam," referring to the cooking method where food is cooked by the heat of steam, often in a covered vessel. It is composed of the radical "艹" (grass or plant) on top and the phonetic component "烝" underneath, which itself combines fire and water imagery to convey the process of vapor rising. This character is commonly used in culinary contexts, as in the dish "蒸餃" (steamed dumplings), and also appears in words related to evaporation, such as "蒸發" (evaporation), as well as in Chinese medicine and philosophical concepts where steam or rising vapor symbolizes transformation or purification.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+84B8 |
| 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 | 蒸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蒸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x92 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x84B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000084B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u84b8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BB5D |
| kCCCII | 215562 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6A65 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6A65 |
| kCangjie | TNEF |
| kCantonese | zing1 |
| kCihaiT | 1159.501 |
| kCowles | 267 280 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1511.140 |
| kDefinition | steam; evaporate |
| kEACC | 215562 |
| kFanqie | 煑仍 |
| kFenn | 522F |
| kFennIndex | 28.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4433.1 |
| kGB0 | 5384 |
| kGB1 | 5384 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0896k |
| kHangul | 증:0E |
| kHanYu | 53273.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhēng(115) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53273.040:zhēng |
| kHKGlyph | 3517 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1511.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53273.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1050.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5574 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BB5D |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3E78 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EACC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-717A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6A65 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6548 |
| kJapanese | ジョウ ショウ むす むれる むらす もろもろ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:2860 |
| kJapaneseKun | MUSU OGARA MURASU |
| kJapaneseOn | JOU |
| kJis0 | 3088 |
| kKangXi | 1050.070 |
| kKorean | CUNG |
| kLau | 1497 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5544 |
| kMandarin | zhēng |
| kMatthews | 362 |
| kMeyerWempe | 292 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022506 MJ022506:E0101 MJ022507:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31618' 31618':E0101 31618:E0102 |
| kNelson | 4002 |
| kPhonetic | 1210A |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2528+140.3.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 86.10 140.10 |
| kSBGY | 198.19 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+70DD<kFenn |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 593.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhēng粵zing1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5544 |
| kTang | jiəng jiɛng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 473.140:zhēng |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | chưng |
| kXerox | 252:056 |
| kXHC1983 | 1472.120:zhēng |