U+8383 "莃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+8383 "莃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, representing a plant or herb. Its composition combines the radical "艹" (grass or plant) with the phonetic component "希" (xi), and it is traditionally pronounced as "xī" in Mandarin. Historically, this character refers to a type of medicinal herb, often identified in classical Chinese texts as the "莃草," which was used in ancient herbal remedies for its purported healing properties, though it is rarely used in modern standard Chinese or Japanese.
General Properties
Code Point
U+8383
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
莃
HTML Hex Encoding
莃
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x8E 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8383
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008383
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8383
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
D769
kCCCII
227E3A
kCNS1986
2-386D
kCNS1992
2-386D
kCangjie
TKKB
kCantonese
hei1
kCihaiT
1142.102
kFanqie
香衣
kFourCornerCode
4422.7
kGB5
7226
kHanYu
53222.020
kHanyuPinyin
53222.020:xī
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53222.020
kIRG_GSource
G5-683A
kIRG_HSource
HB2-D769
kIRG_JSource
JMJ-021959
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-6E04
kIRG_KSource
K2-5769
kIRG_TSource
T2-386D
kJapanese
キ ケ
kKangXi
1033.050
kMandarin
xī
kMojiJoho
MJ021959
kMorohashi
31018
kPhonetic
451*
kRSUnicode
140.7
kSBGY
065.40
kTotalStrokes
10
kUnihanCore2020
HMT