U+8552 "蕒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

蕒

U+8552 "蕒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in traditional and classical texts, where it functions as a variant of the character "蕒" (often referring to a type of herb or plant, such as lettuce or similar greens in botanical contexts). In modern standard Chinese, it is less common, but it appears in historical records and regional usage, sometimes representing a specific species in the daisy or lettuce family. This character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block to support representation of East Asian written languages, particularly in literary and scholarly works that require accurate preservation of traditional orthography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8552
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	蕒
HTML Hex Encoding	蕒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x95 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8552
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008552
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8552

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	232567
kCangjie	TWLC
kCantonese	maai5
kCihaiT	1168.402
kDaeJaweon	1520.230
kDefinition	used in plant names such as for Sonchus brachyotus, Ixeridium dentatum
kFanqie	莫蟹
kGB1	6104
kHanYu	53291.050
kHanyuPinyin	53291.050:mǎi
kIRGDaeJaweon	1520.230
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53291.050
kIRGKangXi	1057.360
kIRG_GSource	G1-5D24
kIRG_HSource	H-99C2
kIRG_JSource	J1-5945
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6F86
kIRG_TSource	T4-5324
kJapanese	バイメ
kJapaneseKun	NOKESHI
kJapaneseOn	BAI MEI
kJis1	5737
kKangXi	1057.360
kMandarin	mǎi
kMojiJoho	MJ022786 MJ022786:E0101 MJ022787:E0102
kMorohashi	31955:E0102
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22370+140.3.12
kRSUnicode	140.12
kSBGY	270.40
kSimplifiedVariant	"荬" U+836C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	599.12
kSMSZD2003Readings	mai粵maai5
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	321:107
kXHC1983	0759.031:mǎi