U+8500 "蔀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蔀
U+8500 "蔀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to a type of plant, specifically a kind of grass or herb, and in classical texts it can denote a covering or a shelter made from such vegetation, while in modern usage it appears primarily in personal names and place names, especially in Japan where it is also associated with the astronomical term for the cycle of the lunar calendar, known as the "bu" system of time measurement.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8500 |
| 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 | 蔀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蔀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x94 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8500 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008500 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8500 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | E74F |
| kCCCII | 23244D |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5338 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5338 |
| kCangjie | TYRL |
| kCantonese | bou6 |
| kCihaiT | 1163.502 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1515.220 |
| kDefinition | screen |
| kEACC | 23244D |
| kFanqie | 蒲口 普后 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4462.7 |
| kGB3 | 7437 |
| kGSR | 0999g' |
| kHangul | 부:1N |
| kHanYu | 53268.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53268.110:bù |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1515.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53268.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1053.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6A45 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E74F |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3C43 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6F32 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6243 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5338 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8F4E |
| kJapanese | ホウ ホ ブ しとみ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:7487 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHITOMI |
| kJapaneseOn | HOU BU |
| kJis0 | 2835 |
| kKangXi | 1053.070 |
| kKorean | PWU |
| kMandarin | bù |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022640 MJ022640:E0101 MJ022641:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31748:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 1070 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2287+140.3.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.11 |
| kSBGY | 325.40 327.10 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5561 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 029.130:bù |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 306:137 |