U+8521 "蔡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蔡
U+8521 "蔡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly used as a surname, historically associated with the ancient State of Cai during the Zhou dynasty. In addition to its use as a family name, it can refer to a type of large tortoise or carapace, and it appears in the term "cai" as a component of words related to plants, such as "cai" for vegetables or edible greens, though its most frequent modern application remains in personal and place names across East Asian cultures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8521 |
| 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 | 蔡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蔡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x94 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8521 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008521 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8521 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BDB2 |
| kCCCII | 215572 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6E5B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6E5B |
| kCangjie | TBOF |
| kCantonese | coi3 |
| kCihaiT | 1164.502 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1517.170 |
| kDefinition | surname; species of tortoise |
| kEACC | 215572 |
| kFanqie | 倉大 |
| kFenn | 515K |
| kFennIndex | 541.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4490.1 |
| kGB0 | 1844 |
| kGB1 | 1844 |
| kGSR | 0337i |
| kHangul | 채:0N |
| kHanYu | 53282.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53282.100:cài,sà,cā |
| kHKGlyph | 3531 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1517.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53282.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1055.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-324C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BDB2 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6871 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EFBF |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7379 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6E5B |
| kJapanese | サイ サツ サチ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3071 |
| kJapaneseKun | AKUTA OTOROERU HERASU |
| kJapaneseOn | SAI SATSU |
| kJis0 | 7281 |
| kKangXi | 1055.030 |
| kKorean | CHAY SAL |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5591 |
| kMandarin | cài |
| kMatthews | 6673 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3445a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022701 MJ022701:E0101 MJ022702:E0102 MJ060130:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 31818:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 54 246 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6426+140.3.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.11 |
| kSBGY | 382.54 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 597.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | cài粵coi3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5591 |
| kTang | *tsɑ̀i |
| kTGHZ2013 | 031.050:cài |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 254:100 |
| kXHC1983 | 0101.040:cài |