U+8506 "蔆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8506 "蔆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a complex Chinese character primarily used in classical or historical texts, where it represents a type of aquatic plant commonly known as water chestnut or Trapa, often associated with the species Trapa natans. This ideograph is a variant or alternative form of the more common character "菱", sharing the same meaning and pronunciation, and it appears in certain East Asian dictionaries and scholarly writings, particularly those referencing ancient botanical descriptions or poetic language. Its structure combines the grass radical (艹) with a phonetic component, reflecting its classification as a herbaceous plant, and it is recognized in the Unicode standard to support accurate representation of traditional and variant characters in digital text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8506
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	蔆
HTML Hex Encoding	蔆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x94 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8506
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008506
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8506

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

kBigFive	BDB7
kCCCII	232446
kCNS1986	1-6E60
kCNS1992	1-6E60
kCangjie	TEGE
kCantonese	ling4
kCihaiT	1165.408
kDaeJaweon	1516.080
kDefinition	water-chestnut, water caltrop
kEACC	232446
kFanqie	力膺
kFourCornerCode	4414.7
kGSR	0898i
kHangul	릉:1N
kHanYu	53284.060
kIICore	AT
kIRGDaeJaweon	1516.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53284.060
kIRGKangXi	1053.190
kIRG_GSource	GE-4A30
kIRG_HSource	HB1-BDB7
kIRG_JSource	J0-6851
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6F29
kIRG_KSource	K1-5F57
kIRG_TSource	T1-6E60
kJapanese	リョウ ひし
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	HISHI
kJapaneseOn	RYOU
kJis0	7249
kKangXi	1053.190
kKorean	LUNG
kMandarin	líng
kMojiJoho	MJ022650 MJ022650:E0101 MJ022651:E0102
kMorohashi	31760:E0102
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6394+140.3.11
kRSUnicode	140.11
kSBGY	199.02
kSMSZD2003Index	597.13
kTaiwanTelegraph	5579
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	HJMT
kXerox	313:270