U+861D "蘝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+861D "蘝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in traditional and classical texts, functioning as a variant or archaic form of the character commonly meaning "vine" or "creeper," particularly referring to climbing plants like the ivy or species in the grape family. Its structure combines the grass radical with phonetic components, and it is occasionally found in literary or botanical contexts, though it is not frequently used in modern standard Chinese or Japanese writing. This character represents the intricate historical development of Han characters, where multiple forms existed for similar meanings across different periods and regions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+861D
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	蘝
HTML Hex Encoding	蘝
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x98 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x861D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000861D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u861d

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	23282B
kCNS1986	E-5E5C
kCNS1992	3-5E5C
kCangjie	TOOO
kCantonese	lim5
kDaeJaweon	1535.220
kHanYu	53332.020
kIRGDaeJaweon	1535.220
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53332.020
kIRGKangXi	1069.190
kIRG_GSource	GE-4A65
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7092
kIRG_KSource	K2-5A67
kIRG_TSource	T3-5E5C
kIRG_VSource	V1-6569
kKangXi	1069.190
kMandarin	liǎn
kMorohashi	32489
kPhonetic	806
kRSUnicode	140.17
kTotalStrokes	20
kVietnamese	lém