U+8579 "蕹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

蕹

U+8579 "蕹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the water spinach plant, known scientifically as Ipomoea aquatica and commonly called "ong choy" or "kangkong" in various Asian cuisines. This logogram is composed of the radical for grass or plant components and phonetic elements, and it appears in traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean written forms as a specific term for this leafy vegetable. In modern usage, the character is primarily encountered in agricultural, culinary, and botanical contexts, particularly in regions where water spinach is a staple ingredient.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8579
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	蕹
HTML Hex Encoding	蕹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x95 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8579
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008579
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8579

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	EE52
kCCCII	23262D
kCNS1986	2-5E7E
kCNS1992	2-5E7E
kCangjie	TYVG
kCantonese	ung3
kCihaiT	1171.307
kDaeJaweon	1523.200
kDefinition	Ipomoea aquatica used as a vegetable
kEACC	23262D
kFanqie	於容
kFourCornerCode	4421.4
kGB0	6219
kGB1	6219
kHanYu	53306.050
kHanyuPinyin	53306.050:yōng,wèng
kIICore	CT
kIRGDaeJaweon	1523.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53306.050
kIRGKangXi	1059.380
kIRG_GSource	G0-5E33
kIRG_HSource	HB2-EE52
kIRG_JSource	J1-5953
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6FF4
kIRG_KSource	K2-5972
kIRG_TSource	T2-5E7E
kJapanese	ヨウユ
kTGH	2013:7844
kJapaneseKun	ATSUMERU
kJapaneseOn	YOU YU
kJis1	5751
kKangXi	1059.380
kMandarin	wèng
kMatthews	7558
kMojiJoho	MJ022864 MJ022864:E0101 MJ022865:E0102
kMorohashi	32057:E0102
kPhonetic	1652
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22375+140.3.13
kRSUnicode	140.13
kSMSZD2003Index	600.06
kSMSZD2003Readings	wèng粵ung3
kTGHZ2013	386.150:wèng
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	321:111
kXHC1983	1208.120:wèng