U+8533 "蔳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8533 "蔳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese ideograph (hanzi) that primarily appears in historical or classical texts rather than in modern standard Chinese usage. Its specific meaning is somewhat obscure but is often associated with the name of a plant, possibly related to the "amur cork tree" (黄柏) or a type of medicinal herb, and it can also function as a phonetic component in forming compound words. The character is composed of the "grass" radical (艹) on top, indicating its botanical nature, and the phonetic element "前" (qián), which gives it a pronunciation close to "qiàn" in Mandarin. Due to its rarity, it is not commonly encountered in everyday writing or digital communication, making it a subject of interest primarily for specialists in classical Chinese lexicography or character etymology.

General Properties

Code Point U+8533
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 蔳
HTML Hex Encoding 蔳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x94 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8533
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008533
C/C++/Java Escape \u8533

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

kCCCII 232445
kCNS1986 E-4E4D
kCNS1992 3-4E4D
kCangjie TEQB
kCantonese sin6
kGB5 7372
kHanYu 53284.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53284.050
kIRGKangXi 1056.121
kIRG_GSource G5-6968
kIRG_HSource H-FDB4
kIRG_JSource J1-593D
kIRG_KSource K2-5957
kIRG_TSource T3-4E4D
kJapanese セン
kJapaneseKun AKANE
kJapaneseOn SEN
kJis1 5729
kKangXi 1056.121
kMandarin qiàn
kMojiJoho MJ022734 MJ022734:E0101 MJ022735:E0102
kMorohashi 31877 31877:E0101
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+22366+140.3.11
kRSUnicode 140.11
kTotalStrokes 14
kUnihanCore2020 H