U+8501 "蔁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8501 "蔁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (kanji/hanzi) that typically refers to a type of mushroom or fungus, specifically one associated with a kind of toadstool or medicinal herb, though its usage is rare in modern standard Chinese. It is composed of the radical 艹 (grass or plant) on top, indicating its botanical nature, and the phonetic component 章 (zhāng) below. Historically, it appears in classical texts, often denoting a poisonous or wild fungus. In Unicode, it is part the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a character used primarily in traditional Chinese and Japanese writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8501
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	蔁
HTML Hex Encoding	蔁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x94 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8501
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008501
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8501

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	23244C
kCNS1986	E-4E40
kCNS1992	3-4E40
kCangjie	XTYTJ
kCantonese	zoeng1
kDaeJaweon	1516.010
kFanqie	諸良
kGB3	7467
kHanYu	53283.120
kHanyuPinyin	53283.120:zhāng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1516.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53283.120
kIRGKangXi	1053.100
kIRG_GSource	G3-6A63
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-022642
kIRG_TSource	T3-4E40
kJapanese	ショウ
kKangXi	1053.100
kMandarin	zhāng
kMojiJoho	MJ022642
kMorohashi	31751
kPhonetic	110*
kRSUnicode	140.11
kSBGY	173.24
kTotalStrokes	14