U+8571 "蕱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8571 "蕱" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and often obscure Chinese character that primarily appears in historical or classical texts, particularly in botanical contexts where it refers to a type of aquatic plant, likely a species of sedge or rush. Composed of the radical for grass (艹) and a phonetic component, this ideograph is not commonly used in modern Mandarin or Japanese, making it a challenging glyph for typographers and digital text systems that require comprehensive CJK coverage. Its representation underscores the depth and complexity of the Chinese writing system, preserving a linguistic artifact from earlier eras.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8571
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	蕱
HTML Hex Encoding	蕱
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x95 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8571
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008571
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8571

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

kBigFive	EB4B
kCCCII	25343C
kCNS1986	2-5976
kCNS1992	2-5976
kCangjie	THDB
kCantonese	saau2
kFourCornerCode	2992.0
kHanYu	53291.091
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53291.091
kIRGKangXi	1059.291
kIRG_GSource	GE-4A3F
kIRG_HSource	HB2-EB4B
kIRG_TSource	T2-5976
kKangXi	1059.291
kMandarin	shāo
kRSUnicode	140.12
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	HMT