U+83DC "菜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+83DC "菜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (CJK stands for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) primarily meaning "vegetable" or "dish," and it is composed of the radical for grass (艹) atop the character for "pick" or "pluck" (采), which also provides a phonetic hint. In everyday usage, it refers broadly to edible plants, cooked greens, or a prepared food course, as seen in common terms like "蔬菜" (shūcài, vegetables) and "中国菜" (zhōngguócài, Chinese cuisine). The character holds cultural significance in East Asian languages, appearing in idioms and proverbs, and its stroke count and composition are standardized for consistent rendering across digital systems.
General Properties
Code Point
U+83DC
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
菜
HTML Hex Encoding
菜
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x8F 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding
0x83DC
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000083DC
C/C++/Java Escape
\u83dc
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
B5E6
kCCCII
215544
kCNS1986
1-616C
kCNS1992
1-616C
kCangjie
TBD
kCantonese
coi3
kCihaiT
1143.105
kCowles
4800
kDaeJaweon
1496.160
kDefinition
vegetables; dish, order; food
kEACC
215544
kFanqie
倉代
kFenn
488A
kFennIndex
541.06
kFourCornerCode
4490.4
kGB0
1843
kGB1
1843
kGradeLevel
1
kGSR
0942e
kHangul
채:0E
kHanYu
53236.100
kHanyuPinlu
cài(354)
kHanyuPinyin
53236.100:cài
kHKGlyph
3490
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53236.100
kIRG_GSource
G0-324B
kIRG_HSource
HB1-B5E6
kIRG_JSource
J0-3A5A
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-EFBE
kIRG_KSource
K0-7378
kIRG_TSource
T1-616C
kJapanese
サイ な
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:2207
kJapaneseKun
NA
kJapaneseOn
SAI
kJis0
2658
kKangXi
1038.130
kKorean
CHAY
kLau
362
kMainlandTelegraph
5475
kMandarin
cài
kMatthews
6671
kMeyerWempe
3443
kMojiJoho
MJ022109 MJ022109:E0102 MJ022110:E0103 MJ022111:E0104
kMorohashi
31184' 31184':E0102 31184:E0103
kNelson
3982
kPhonetic
245
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2122+140.3.8 V+13786+140.3.8
kRSUnicode
140.8
kSBGY
391.01
kSMSZD2003Index
585.12
kSMSZD2003Readings
cài粵coi3
kTaiwanTelegraph
5475
kTang
tsèi
kTGHZ2013
031.040:cài
kTotalStrokes
12
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kXerox
244:376
kXHC1983
0101.030:cài