U+853C "蔼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+853C "蔼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "amiable," "friendly," or "kind," often used in literary and formal contexts to describe a gentle and approachable demeanor. It is composed of the grass radical component atop a phonetic element, reflecting its traditional classification as a ideophonetic compound. In modern usage, it appears in words such as "和蔼," which conveys warmth and affability in a person's character, and it is also employed in proper names or poetic descriptions of landscapes, evoking a sense of soft, welcoming harmony.

General Properties

Code Point	U+853C
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	蔼
HTML Hex Encoding	蔼
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x94 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x853C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000853C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u853c

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	275637
kCangjie	TIVV
kCantonese	oi2
kDefinition	lush; affable, friendly
kEACC	275637
kFourCornerCode	4472
kGB0	1610
kHanYu	53285.050
kHanyuPinlu	ǎi(19)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53285.050
kIRGKangXi	1056.121
kIRG_GSource	G0-302A
kTGH	2013:3074
kKangXi	1056.121
kMainlandTelegraph	5676
kMandarin	ǎi
kRSUnicode	140.11
kSMSZD2003Index	598.05
kTGHZ2013	002.100:ǎi
kTotalStrokes	14
kTraditionalVariant	"藹" U+85F9 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0003.140:ǎi