U+8542 "蕂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 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