U+8543 "蕃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蕃
U+8543 "蕃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "abundant" or "flourishing," and it is often used in historical and classical texts to describe lush vegetation or prosperity. In modern contexts, it is notably read as "fán" when signifying luxuriance or multiplication, and as "bō" when used in the place name Turpan or in the term for "Tibetan" (吐蕃, Tǔbō) in ancient Chinese records. This character is classified under the radical for grass (艹) and appears in various compound words related to growth, foreign lands, and traditional botanical references, reflecting its semantic versatility across different periods of Chinese literary and linguistic history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8543 |
| 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 | 蕃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蕃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x95 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8543 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008543 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8543 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BFBB |
| kCCCII | 21557B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7225 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7225 |
| kCangjie | THDW |
| kCantonese | faan4 |
| kCihaiT | 1167.201 |
| kCowles | 673.5 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1519.270 |
| kDefinition | foreign things |
| kEACC | 21557B |
| kFanqie | 附袁 甫煩 |
| kFenn | 811G |
| kFennIndex | 128.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4460.9 |
| kGB0 | 6212 |
| kGB1 | 6212 |
| kGSR | 0195m |
| kHangul | 번:0N |
| kHanYu | 53293.130 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53293.130:fán,fān,pí,bō |
| kHKGlyph | 3538 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1519.270 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53293.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1056.330 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5E2C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BFBB |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4859 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DDD1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5B66 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7225 |
| kJapanese | バン ハン ヒ ビ ボン しげる ふえる |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5880 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIGERU |
| kJapaneseOn | BAN HAN |
| kJis0 | 4057 |
| kKangXi | 1056.330 |
| kKarlgren | 22 |
| kKorean | PEN |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5603 |
| kMandarin | bō fān |
| kMatthews | 1798 |
| kMeyerWempe | 459 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022760 MJ022760:E0102 MJ022761:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 31906:E0103 |
| kNelson | 4056 |
| kPhonetic | 338 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3437+140.3.12 V+13990+140.4.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.12 |
| kSBGY | 114.23 116.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 598.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | fán粵faan4 fān粵faan1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5603 |
| kTang | biæn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 026.110:bō |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 256:272 |
| kXHC1983 | 0298.050:fān 0300.050:fán |