U+8523 "蔣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蔣
U+8523 "蔣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to a type of wild rice or water grass, specifically *Zizania latifolia*, though its primary modern usage is as a Chinese surname. It is pronounced as "Jiǎng" in Mandarin and appears frequently in the names of historical figures, such as Chiang Kai-shek (蒋介石), and in place names in Taiwan and China. The character is composed of the grass radical (艹) and the phonetic component 將, and it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, enabling its representation across different East Asian writing systems, including Traditional Chinese, Korean Hanja, and Japanese Kyūjitai.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8523 |
| 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 | 蔣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蔣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x94 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8523 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008523 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8523 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BDB1 |
| kCCCII | 215571 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6E5A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6E5A |
| kCangjie | TVMI |
| kCantonese | zoeng2 |
| kCihaiT | 1165.201 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1517.190 |
| kDefinition | surname; Hydropyrum latifolium |
| kEACC | 215571 |
| kFanqie | 即良 即兩 |
| kFenn | 21H |
| kFennIndex | 45.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4424.2 |
| kGB1 | 2915 |
| kGSR | 0727x |
| kHangul | 장:0N |
| kHanYu | 53285.170 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53285.170:jiāng,jiǎng |
| kHKGlyph | 3530 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1517.190 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53285.170 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1055.060 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3D2F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BDB1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7B36 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E6F9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6D78 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6E5A |
| kJapanese | ショウ ソウ |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,91,22 |
| kJapaneseKun | MAKOMO HAGEMASU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU SOU |
| kJis1 | 5722 |
| kKangXi | 1055.060 |
| kKorean | CANG |
| kMandarin | jiǎng |
| kMatthews | 660 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022706 MJ022706:E0101 MJ022707:E0102 MJ022705:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 31820:E0103 |
| kNelson | 4036 |
| kPhonetic | 112 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7706+140.3.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.11 |
| kSBGY | 175.29 310.35 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "蒋" U+848B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 597.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiǎng粵zoeng2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5592 |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 251:075 |
| kXHC1983 | 0560.061:jiǎng |