U+853A "蔺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蔺
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
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 |