U+8575 "蕵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8575 "蕵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that traditionally refers to a type of wild plant, specifically identified in classical texts as a kind of herb or edible greens resembling sorrel or dock. It is composed of the radical for grass or plant, indicating its botanical nature, and the phonetic component "參" (can/shen). Though not common in modern Chinese or Japanese, it appears in historical dictionaries such as the Kangxi Zidian, where it is defined as a variety of sour-tasting herb used in antiquity for simple meals or medicinal purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8575
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	蕵
HTML Hex Encoding	蕵
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x95 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8575
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008575
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8575

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	EB4E
kCCCII	253353
kCNS1986	2-5979
kCNS1992	2-5979
kCangjie	TNIV
kCantonese	syun1
kFanqie	思渾
kFourCornerCode	4423.2
kGB5	7393
kHanYu	53300.171
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53300.170
kIRGKangXi	1059.291
kIRG_GSource	G5-697D
kIRG_HSource	HB2-EB4E
kIRG_TSource	T2-5979
kKangXi	1059.291
kMandarin	sūn
kPhonetic	29*
kRSUnicode	140.12
kSBGY	118.03
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	HMT