U+8576 "蕶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8576 "蕶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that typically refers to the water caltrop, also known as lingjiao or Trapa natans, a type of aquatic plant with edible, horn-shaped nuts. In classical and modern Chinese usage, this character more specifically denotes a variant or less common form of the character 菱 (líng), which also means water caltrop or ling nut. Its structure combines the grass radical 艹, indicating its botanical nature, with the phonetic component 令 (lìng), which provides a clue to its pronunciation. While it is not a frequently used character in everyday simplified Chinese, it appears in literary texts, historical documents, and botanical contexts, particularly when describing traditional aquatic plants or in ancient poetry.

General Properties

Code Point U+8576
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 蕶
HTML Hex Encoding 蕶
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x95 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8576
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008576
C/C++/Java Escape \u8576

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 EE53
kCCCII 25344D
kCNS1986 2-5F21
kCNS1992 2-5F21
kCangjie TMBI
kCantonese ling4
kDaeJaweon 1523.160
kFanqie 郎丁
kFourCornerCode 4430.7
kHanYu 53301.010
kHanyuPinyin 53301.010:líng
kIRGDaeJaweon 1523.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53301.010
kIRGKangXi 1059.330
kIRG_GSource GE-4A41
kIRG_HSource HB2-EE53
kIRG_JSource JMJ-022858
kIRG_KPSource KP1-6FC6
kIRG_KSource K2-596F
kIRG_TSource T2-5F21
kJapanese レイ リョウ
kKangXi 1059.330
kMandarin líng
kMojiJoho MJ022858
kMorohashi 32053
kRSUnicode 140.13
kSBGY 196.31
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 HMT