U+857C "蕼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+857C "蕼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that primarily appears in historical or classical texts rather than modern standard usage. Its structure combines a grass radical with elements suggesting the number four or a state of arrangement, and its traditional meanings revolve around concepts of growth, proliferation, or the flourishing of vegetation, though its exact semantic range remains obscure due to its infrequent occurrence. This character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block as part of the set of East Asian logographs shared across Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages, serving as a digital representation for a glyph that is seldom encountered in contemporary writing but preserved for historical and linguistic scholarship.

General Properties

Code Point U+857C
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 蕼
HTML Hex Encoding 蕼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x95 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x857C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000857C
C/C++/Java Escape \u857c

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 EE41
kCCCII 232637
kCNS1986 2-5E6D
kCNS1992 2-5E6D
kCangjie TSIQ
kCantonese sei3
kDaeJaweon 1523.240
kFanqie 息利
kFourCornerCode 4475.7
kGB5 7415
kGSR 0509n
kHanYu 53299.070
kHanyuPinyin 53299.070:sì
kIRGDaeJaweon 1523.240
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53299.070
kIRGKangXi 1059.430
kIRG_GSource G5-6A2F
kIRG_HSource HB2-EE41
kIRG_JSource JMJ-022870
kIRG_KPSource KP1-6FCE
kIRG_KSource K2-5974
kIRG_TSource T2-5E6D
kJapanese シ イ
kKangXi 1059.430
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ022870
kMorohashi 32062
kPhonetic 1156A*
kRSUnicode 140.13
kSBGY 354.38
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 HMT