U+8503 "蔃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

蔃

U+8503 "蔃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character classified under the radical for grass or plant. Its primary meaning refers to the roots of plants, particularly the thick, fibrous roots used in traditional contexts such as agriculture or herbal medicine. This character is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese, appearing more frequently in classical texts or specialized botanical terminology. In the Unicode standard, it is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8503
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	蔃
HTML Hex Encoding	蔃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x94 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8503
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008503
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8503

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	232464
kCNS1986	E-4E4C
kCNS1992	3-4E4C
kCangjie	TNII
kCantonese	koeng2
kCheungBauer	140/11;TNII;koeng2
kCheungBauerIndex	457.02
kCowles	1967
kDaeJaweon	1516.050
kDefinition	(Cant.) roots of plants
kFourCornerCode	4423.6
kGB3	7502
kHanYu	53297.160
kHanyuPinyin	53297.160:qiáng,jiàng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1516.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53297.160
kIRGKangXi	1053.130
kIRG_GSource	G3-6B22
kIRG_HSource	H-9242
kIRG_JSource	J1-592E
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6F16
kIRG_KSource	K2-593F
kIRG_TSource	T3-4E4C
kJapanese	キョウゴウ
kTGH	2013:7758
kJapaneseOn	KYOU GOU
kJis1	5714
kKangXi	1053.130
kMandarin	qiáng
kMeyerWempe	1133
kMojiJoho	MJ022646 MJ022646:E0101 MJ022647:E0102
kMorohashi	31754:E0102
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22358+140.3.11
kRSUnicode	140.11
kTGHZ2013	298.130:qiáng
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	GH