U+8603 "蘃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8603 "蘃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that represents a variant form of the character meaning "bud" or "sprout," often associated with the budding of plants or flowers. It belongs to the set of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs, which encode shared logographic writing systems from East Asian languages. This character is composed of a grass radical on top and a phonetic component beneath, reflecting its connection to botanical growth, though its usage is extremely limited in modern texts and primarily appears in classical or historical Chinese literature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8603
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	蘃
HTML Hex Encoding	蘃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x98 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8603
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008603
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8603

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

kCCCII	232769
kCNS1986	E-5C7C
kCNS1992	3-5C7C
kCangjie	TYMD
kCantonese	jeoi5
kDaeJaweon	1533.180
kHanYu	53325.030
kIRGDaeJaweon	1533.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53325.030
kIRGKangXi	1067.210
kIRG_GSource	GE-4A5C
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-023142
kIRG_TSource	T3-5C7C
kJapanese	ズイ
kKangXi	1067.210
kMandarin	ruǐ
kMojiJoho	MJ023142
kMorohashi	32411
kRSUnicode	140.16
kTotalStrokes	19