U+848B "蒋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+848B "蒋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that functions both as a surname and a component in other words, primarily representing a type of plant known as water spinach or Ipomoea aquatica, though its most common modern usage is as the surname Jiang, which ranks among the most frequent family names in China. Historically, the character also referred to a kind of grass or a place name in ancient texts, and its simplified form reduces the number of strokes while maintaining the same semantic roots. In the standard Chinese writing system, it is classified under the radical for grass (艹) with a phonetic component, reflecting its botanical origin and phonetic role in the language.