U+8536 "蔶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8536 "蔶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) from the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which is used in traditional and simplified Chinese writing, as well as in Japanese and Korean contexts. This specific character is a variant form of "蔶" (pronounced zé in Mandarin), which historically refers to a type of plant or wrapper, often associated with bamboo shoots or reeds used in making mats or coverings. Its structure combines the radical for grass or plant (艹) with the phonetic component "責," and while it is not commonly used in modern everyday language, it appears in classical texts and specialized dictionaries, contributing to the rich inventory of Sino-Japanese-Korean logograms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8536
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	蔶
HTML Hex Encoding	蔶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x94 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8536
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008536
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8536

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

kCangjie	TQMC
kCantonese	zaak3
kHanYu	53274.151
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53274.151
kIRGKangXi	1056.121
kIRG_GSource	GE-4A38
kIRG_JSource	J1-593F
kJapanese	すのこ
kJapaneseKun	SONOKO
kJis1	5731
kKangXi	1056.121
kMandarin	zé
kMojiJoho	MJ022742 MJ022742:E0101 MJ022743:E0102
kMorohashi	H529:E0102
kPhonetic	16*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22367+140.3.11
kRSUnicode	140.11
kTotalStrokes	14