U+837C "荼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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U+837C "荼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of bitter herb, often identified as the sow thistle or a similar plant, and historically it also served as an ancient term for tea before the character 茶 (chá, meaning "tea") became standardized. In classical texts, it carries connotations of bitterness and hardship, and it is also used in the name of the medicinal herb *tu*, associated with purging or detoxifying properties. This character appears in Chinese poetry and philosophical works, such as the "Classic of Poetry," where it symbolizes sorrow or the harshness of life, and it remains in modern usage as a less common variant or in specific literary and medicinal contexts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+837C
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
荼
HTML Hex Encoding
荼
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x8D 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding
0x837C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000837C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u837c
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
B2FE
kCCCII
215532
kCNS1986
1-5D25
kCNS1992
1-5D25
kCangjie
TOMD
kCantonese
tou4
kCihaiT
1139.501
kCowles
4398
kDaeJaweon
1492.080
kDefinition
thistle, sowthistle; bitter
kEACC
215532
kFanqie
同都 食遮 宅加
kFenn
31G
kFennIndex
570.04
kFourCornerCode
4490.4
kGB0
6117
kGB1
6117
kGSR
0082x
kHanYu
53221.110
kHanyuPinyin
53221.110:tú,chá,yé,shū
kHKGlyph
3468
kIICore
AGTJHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53221.110
kIRG_GSource
G0-5D31
kIRG_HSource
HB1-B2FE
kIRG_JSource
J0-6838
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-6DCE
kIRG_KSource
K2-5762
kIRG_TSource
T1-5D25
kIRG_VSource
V1-6523
kJapanese
ト シャ ヨ タ ダ ショ ヤ ズ にがな のげし
kTGH
2013:4436
kJapaneseKun
NIGANA
kJapaneseOn
TO DO TA
kJis0
7224
kKangXi
1032.210
kLau
3093
kMainlandTelegraph
5442
kMandarin
tú
kMatthews
6526
kMeyerWempe
3168
kMojiJoho
MJ021943 MJ021943:E0101 MJ021944:E0102
kMorohashi
31008:E0102
kNelson
3951
kPhonetic
1610
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+6369+140.3.7
kRSUnicode
140.7
kSBGY
082.42 165.36 168.30
kSMSZD2003Index
582.03
kSMSZD2003Readings
tú粵tou4 shū粵syu1 chá粵caa4
kTaiwanTelegraph
5442
kTGHZ2013
372.030:tú
kTotalStrokes
11
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kVietnamese
dưa
kXerox
271:313
kXHC1983
1163.010:tú