U+8518 "蔘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蔘
U+8518 "蔘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used primarily to represent a type of ginseng, particularly in the context of herbal medicine and historical texts. It is composed of the radical for grass or plant (艹) combined with elements indicating sound and meaning, and its usage appears in classical literature, medicinal formulas, and cultural artifacts from East Asia. While simplified Chinese often uses the character 参 for similar meanings, 蔘 retains a more specific and formal connotation, especially when referring to Panax ginseng or related species.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8518 |
| 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 | 蔘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蔘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x94 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8518 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008518 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8518 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | E778 |
| kCCCII | 23252A |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5361 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5361 |
| kCangjie | TIIH |
| kCantonese | sam1 |
| kCihaiT | 1164.402 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1517.040 |
| kDefinition | ginseng; huge |
| kEACC | 23252A |
| kFanqie | 所今 蘇含 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4420.2 |
| kGB3 | 7365 |
| kHangul | 삼:0N |
| kHanYu | 53286.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53286.100:shēn,sān,sǎn |
| kIICore | ATJKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1517.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53286.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1054.170 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6961 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E778 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6875 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E1BA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5F38 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5361 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6551 |
| kJapanese | サン シン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | NINJIN |
| kJapaneseOn | SHIN SAN |
| kJis0 | 7285 |
| kKangXi | 1054.170 |
| kKorean | SAM |
| kMandarin | shēn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022686 MJ022686:E0101 MJ022687:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31795:E0102 |
| kNelson | 4032 |
| kPhonetic | 23* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6430+140.3.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.11 |
| kSBGY | 220.20 223.18 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 598.04 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9794 |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | sam |
| kXerox | 317:052 |