U+8493 "蒓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+8493 "蒓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that refers to a type of aquatic plant, specifically the water shield (Brasenia schreberi), which is an edible perennial herb commonly found in East Asian cuisine and traditional medicine. In simplified Chinese, it is often written as 莼, and its use in classical literature and botanical contexts highlights its cultural significance, particularly in regions like Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, where it is harvested for its gelatinous young leaves and stems. This character falls within the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a logograph that combines the radical for grass (艹) with phonetic components to convey meaning related to flora.
General Properties
Code Point
U+8493
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
蒓
HTML Hex Encoding
蒓
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x92 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8493
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008493
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8493
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kCCCII
23243A
kCNS1986
E-4944
kCNS1992
3-4944
kCangjie
TVFU
kCantonese
seon4
kCihaiT
1161.603
kDaeJaweon
1509.120
kDefinition
Brasenia schreberi
kEACC
23243A
kFanqie
常倫
kGB1
6127
kHanYu
53274.120
kHanyuPinyin
53274.120:chún
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53274.120
kIRG_GSource
G1-5D3B
kIRG_HSource
H-8F71
kIRG_JSource
J1-586B
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-6EEF
kIRG_KSource
K2-5876
kIRG_TSource
T3-4944
kJapanese
ジュン ぬなわ
kJapaneseKun
NUNAWA
kJapaneseOn
JUN SHUN
kJis1
5675
kKangXi
1048.040
kMandarin
chún
kMatthews
5931
kMojiJoho
MJ022442 MJ022442:E0101 MJ022443:E0102
kMorohashi
31545:E0102
kPhonetic
1271
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+19744+140.3.10
kRSUnicode
140.10
kSBGY
107.09
kSemanticVariant
U+84F4<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
592.16
kTaiwanTelegraph
5573
kTotalStrokes
13
kUnihanCore2020
H
kXerox
271:150