U+852C "蔬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+852C "蔬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly used in East Asian languages, primarily representing the concept of vegetables or edible plants. This ideograph is composed of the radical for grass or vegetation, indicating its botanical association, and a phonetic component. In modern usage, it appears in words like "蔬菜" meaning vegetables, and occasionally refers to coarse or simple foods in classical contexts. The character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, enabling consistent representation across these writing systems while retaining its semantic ties to plant based food sources.

General Properties

Code Point U+852C
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 蔬
HTML Hex Encoding 蔬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x94 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x852C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000852C
C/C++/Java Escape \u852c

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 BDAD
kCCCII 21556D
kCNS1986 1-6E56
kCNS1992 1-6E56
kCangjie TNMU
kCantonese so1
kCihaiT 1165.302
kCowles 3975
kDaeJaweon 1518.130
kDefinition vegetables, greens
kEACC 21556D
kFanqie 所葅
kFenn 871F
kFennIndex 461.04 473.13
kFourCornerCode 4411.3
kGB0 4263
kGB1 4263
kGradeLevel 2
kGSR 0090d
kHangul 소:0E
kHanYu 53298.020
kHanyuPinlu shū(33)
kHanyuPinyin 53298.020:shū,shǔ
kHKGlyph 3533
kIICore AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1518.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53298.020
kIRGKangXi 1055.250
kIRG_GSource G0-4A5F
kIRG_HSource HB1-BDAD
kIRG_JSource J0-6876
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E3B7
kIRG_KSource K0-614A
kIRG_TSource T1-6E56
kJapanese ソ ショ ス シュ あおもの
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kTGH 2013:3211
kJapaneseKun AOMONO
kJapaneseOn SO SHO
kJis0 7286
kKangXi 1055.250
kKorean SO
kLau 2888
kMainlandTelegraph 5600
kMandarin shū
kMatthews 5862
kMeyerWempe 2752
kMojiJoho MJ022723 MJ022723:E0101 MJ022724:E0102
kMorohashi 31839:E0102
kNelson 4049
kPhonetic 1226A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+6431+140.3.12
kRSUnicode 140.11
kSBGY 069.18
kSMSZD2003Index 598.12
kSMSZD2003Readings shū粵so1
kTaiwanTelegraph 5600
kTang shriu
kTGHZ2013 341.040:shū
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kXerox 254:256
kXHC1983 1062.040:shū