U+8FB3 "辳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8FB3 "辳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that primarily functions as a variant form of the more common character "農" meaning agriculture or farming. Its structure combines components related to farming tools and plants, reflecting its historical use in classical texts as an alternative representation of agricultural concepts. In modern Chinese and Japanese usage, this character is largely obsolete, appearing infrequently in specialized historical or literary contexts, and it is valued mainly by calligraphers or scholars studying ancient Chinese scripts for its distinct visual form and etymological significance.

General Properties

Code Point U+8FB3
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 辳
HTML Hex Encoding 辳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xBE 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8FB3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008FB3
C/C++/Java Escape \u8fb3

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 24424D
kCNS1986 E-4F39
kCNS1992 3-4F39
kCangjie DDMMV
kCantonese nung4
kCihaiT 1311.503
kDaeJaweon 1734.050
kDefinition agriculture, farming; farmer
kFanqie 奴冬
kGSR 1005b
kHanYu 63608.040
kIRGDaeJaweon 1734.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63608.040
kIRGKangXi 1253.050
kIRG_GSource GE-4F27
kIRG_HSource H-9054
kIRG_JSource JMJ-025750
kIRG_KPSource KP1-7D30
kIRG_TSource T3-4F39
kJapanese ノウ
kKangXi 1253.050
kMandarin nóng
kMojiJoho MJ025750
kMorohashi 38693
kPhonetic 776 991
kRSUnicode 161.8
kSBGY 033.23
kSMSZD2003Index 332.11 691.14
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 H
kXHC1983 0838.082:nóng