U+8577 "蕷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蕷
U+8577 "蕷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally used in East Asian languages, most commonly in Classical Chinese and literary contexts. It specifically refers to a type of edible tuber, known as yam or Chinese yam (Dioscorea opposita), and is often associated with the term "蕷藷" (yù shǔ) or simply "山藥" (shān yào) in modern usage. In practical terms, the character is rarely used in everyday simplified Chinese but may appear in historical texts, botanical references, or traditional medicine discussions where the yam's nutritional and medicinal properties are noted.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8577 |
| 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 | 蕷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蕷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x95 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8577 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008577 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8577 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EE40 |
| kCCCII | 232633 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5E6C |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5E6C |
| kCangjie | TNNC |
| kCantonese | jyu6 |
| kCihaiT | 1171.305 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1523.170 |
| kDefinition | yam |
| kEACC | 232633 |
| kFanqie | 羊洳 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4428.6 |
| kGB1 | 6187 |
| kHanYu | 53309.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53309.090:yù |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1523.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53309.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1059.340 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5D77 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EE40 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6931 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6FF1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5970 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5E6C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-655A |
| kJapanese | ヨ |
| kJapaneseOn | YO |
| kJis0 | 7317 |
| kKangXi | 1059.340 |
| kMandarin | yù |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022859 MJ022859:E0101 MJ022860:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 32054:E0102 |
| kNelson | 4062 |
| kPhonetic | 1617 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6456+140.3.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.13 |
| kSBGY | 363.25 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "蓣" U+84E3 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 600.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yù粵jyu6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5626 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kVietnamese | nhựa |
| kXerox | 306:154 |