U+863B "蘻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+863B "蘻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character composed of the radical for grass or vegetation (艹) and a complex phonetic component, with its overall meaning traditionally associated with "a kind of plant" or "vine," though its specific botanical identification remains obscure in modern usage. This character appears primarily in classical Chinese texts and historical dictionaries, such as the Shuowen Jiezi, where it is noted as a term for a creeping or climbing plant. Due to its extreme rarity and lack of common usage in contemporary Chinese or Japanese, it is seldom encountered outside specialized linguistic or paleographic studies. The character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, representing a historical symbol that preserves ancient lexical knowledge.

General Properties

Code Point U+863B
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 蘻
HTML Hex Encoding 蘻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x98 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x863B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000863B
C/C++/Java Escape \u863b

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 F7F5
kCCCII 232842
kCNS1986 2-6F44
kCNS1992 2-6F44
kCangjie TJEF
kCantonese hai6
kCihaiT 1181.603
kDaeJaweon 1537.450
kFanqie 古詣
kFourCornerCode 4490.0
kHanYu 53336.010
kHanyuPinyin 53336.010:jì
kIRGDaeJaweon 1537.450
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53336.010
kIRGKangXi 1071.280
kIRG_GSource GE-4A70
kIRG_HSource HB2-F7F5
kIRG_JSource JMJ-023245
kIRG_KPSource KP1-70A8
kIRG_KSource K2-5A7C
kIRG_TSource T2-6F44
kJapanese ケイ
kKangXi 1071.280
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ023245
kMorohashi 32581
kRSUnicode 140.19
kSBGY 372.51
kTotalStrokes 22
kUnihanCore2020 HMT