U+8590 "薐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8590 "薐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally classified as a variant or obscure form associated with the character "菱" (ling), which denotes the water caltrop or a type of edible aquatic plant. This character appears in historical or classical Chinese texts, particularly in botanical or literary contexts, and is composed of the radical for grass (艹) combined with a phonetic component to suggest its sound and meaning. In modern standard Chinese, it is rarely used, having been largely supplanted by the more common character "菱" in everyday writing and digital communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+8590
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 薐
HTML Hex Encoding 薐
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x96 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8590
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008590
C/C++/Java Escape \u8590

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 EE55
kCCCII 232654
kCNS1986 2-5F23
kCNS1992 2-5F23
kCangjie THDE
kCantonese ling4
kCihaiT 1171.406
kDaeJaweon 1525.050
kDefinition spinach
kEACC 232654
kFourCornerCode 4494.7
kGB3 7514
kHanYu 53302.090
kHanyuPinyin 53302.090:léng
kIRGDaeJaweon 1525.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53302.090
kIRGKangXi 1061.070
kIRG_GSource G3-6B2E
kIRG_HSource HB2-EE55
kIRG_JSource J0-6933
kIRG_KPSource KP1-6FC7
kIRG_KSource K2-597E
kIRG_TSource T2-5F23
kJapanese ロウ
kJapaneseOn ROU
kJis0 7319
kKangXi 1061.070
kMandarin léng
kMatthews 3850
kMojiJoho MJ022919 MJ022919:E0101 MJ022920:E0102
kMorohashi 32108:E0102
kPhonetic 810A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+6458+140.3.13
kRSUnicode 140.13
kTaiwanTelegraph 5629
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 HJMT
kXerox 306:152
kXHC1983 0687.090:léng