U+853A "蔺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+853A "蔺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of plant, specifically the jasmine or a kind of rush used for weaving mats, and it also serves as a surname. In modern usage, it is most famously associated with the historical figure Lin Xiangru, a prominent statesman from the Warring States period in ancient China. The character is composed of the grass radical on top and the phonetic component "閵" below, reflecting its botanical meaning. It is defined in the Unicode standard as a CJK unified ideograph, falling within the range of characters used for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, though its usage is predominantly in Chinese texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+853A
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 蔺
HTML Hex Encoding 蔺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x94 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x853A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000853A
C/C++/Java Escape \u853a

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 275639
kCangjie TLSG
kCantonese leon6
kDefinition rush used for making mats; surname
kEACC 275639
kFourCornerCode 4422
kGB0 6194
kHanYu 53284.030
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53284.030
kIRGKangXi 1056.121
kIRG_GSource G0-5D7E
kTGH 2013:5652
kKangXi 1056.121
kMainlandTelegraph 5677
kMandarin lìn
kRSUnicode 140.11
kSMSZD2003Index 598.08
kTGHZ2013 225.220:lìn
kTotalStrokes 14
kTraditionalVariant "藺" U+85FA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0718.080:lìn