U+852C "蔬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蔬
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
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 |