U+8542 "蕂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蕂
U+8542 "蕂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character classified under the Kangxi radical for grass or plant, and it is primarily used in historical or classical Chinese texts. This character generally refers to a type of plant or herb, though its specific botanical identification is not widely established in modern usage. It appears in the Unicode standard as part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which covers characters from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages, where it is assigned a distinct code point for digital text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8542 |
| 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 | 蕂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蕂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x95 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8542 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008542 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8542 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 23256D |
| kCNS1986 | E-5252 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-5252 |
| kCangjie | TBFS |
| kCantonese | sing3 |
| kCihaiT | 1168.507 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1519.260 |
| kDefinition | sesame |
| kEACC | 23256D |
| kFanqie | 詩證 |
| kGB3 | 7488 |
| kHanYu | 53294.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53294.030:shèng |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1519.260 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53294.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1056.310 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6A78 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-FAB9 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-022757 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6F93 |
| kIRG_KSource | K6-1055 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-5252 |
| kJapanese | ショウ |
| kKangXi | 1056.310 |
| kMandarin | shèng |
| kMatthews | 5755 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022757 |
| kMorohashi | 31904 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.12 |
| kSBGY | 433.20 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |