U+861E "蘞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+861E "蘞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in classical and literary contexts, where it represents a type of wild vine or creeper plant, often specifically identified as the bitter vine or the climbing plant known in English as the "vine of the bindweed" family, and it carries connotations of bitterness or astringency derived from the plant's taste. In historical usage, this character appears in ancient texts such as the "Classic of Poetry" (Shijing), where it is associated with the gathering of edible or medicinal herbs, and it is occasionally used in modern Chinese as a rare surname or in specialized botanical terminology. The character combines the "grass" radical (艹) on top with a phonetic component, reflecting its categorization among plants in the Chinese writing system. Overall, U+861E is a seldom-used but culturally significant glyph, embedded in traditional Chinese references to nature and herbal medicine.

General Properties

Code Point U+861E
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 蘞
HTML Hex Encoding 蘞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x98 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x861E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000861E
C/C++/Java Escape \u861e

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 F5FD
kCCCII 23282A
kCNS1986 2-6C2D
kCNS1992 2-6C2D
kCangjie TOOK
kCantonese lim5
kCihaiT 1179.604
kDaeJaweon 1535.230
kDefinition wild vine, Vitis pentaphylla
kFanqie 力鹽 虚嚴 良冉
kFourCornerCode 4484.8
kGB1 6192
kGSR 0613m
kHanYu 53332.010
kHanyuPinyin 53332.010:liǎn,xiān
kIICore CT
kIRGDaeJaweon 1535.230
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53332.010
kIRGKangXi 1069.200
kIRG_GSource G1-5D7C
kIRG_HSource HB2-F5FD
kIRG_JSource J14-772F
kIRG_KPSource KP1-7085
kIRG_KSource K2-5A68
kIRG_TSource T2-6C2D
kJapanese レン ケン えぐい
kJIS0213 2,87,15
kJapaneseKun YABUKARASHI
kJapaneseOn REN KEN KON
kJis1 5813
kKangXi 1069.200
kMandarin liǎn
kMatthews 4000
kMeyerWempe 1563c
kMojiJoho MJ023194 MJ023194:E0101 MJ023195:E0102
kMorohashi 32490:E0102
kNelson 4100
kPhonetic 806
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+18567+140.3.17
kRSUnicode 140.17
kSBGY 225.31 231.27 333.35
kSemanticVariant U+859F<kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant "蔹" U+8539 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 606.06
kSMSZD2003Readings liǎn粵lim5
kTaiwanTelegraph 5692
kTotalStrokes 20
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kXerox 313:305
kXHC1983 0704.091:liǎn