U+8523 "蔣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+8523 "蔣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to a type of wild rice or water grass, specifically *Zizania latifolia*, though its primary modern usage is as a Chinese surname. It is pronounced as "Jiǎng" in Mandarin and appears frequently in the names of historical figures, such as Chiang Kai-shek (蒋介石), and in place names in Taiwan and China. The character is composed of the grass radical (艹) and the phonetic component 將, and it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, enabling its representation across different East Asian writing systems, including Traditional Chinese, Korean Hanja, and Japanese Kyūjitai.
General Properties
Code Point
U+8523
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
蔣
HTML Hex Encoding
蔣
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x94 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8523
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008523
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8523
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
BDB1
kCCCII
215571
kCNS1986
1-6E5A
kCNS1992
1-6E5A
kCangjie
TVMI
kCantonese
zoeng2
kCihaiT
1165.201
kDaeJaweon
1517.190
kDefinition
surname; Hydropyrum latifolium
kEACC
215571
kFanqie
即良 即兩
kFenn
21H
kFennIndex
45.07
kFourCornerCode
4424.2
kGB1
2915
kGSR
0727x
kHangul
장:0N
kHanYu
53285.170
kHanyuPinyin
53285.170:jiāng,jiǎng
kHKGlyph
3530
kIICore
ATHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53285.170
kIRG_GSource
G1-3D2F
kIRG_HSource
HB1-BDB1
kIRG_JSource
J13-7B36
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E6F9
kIRG_KSource
K0-6D78
kIRG_TSource
T1-6E5A
kJapanese
ショウ ソウ
kJinmeiyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kJIS0213
1,91,22
kJapaneseKun
MAKOMO HAGEMASU
kJapaneseOn
SHOU SOU
kJis1
5722
kKangXi
1055.060
kKorean
CANG
kMandarin
jiǎng
kMatthews
660
kMojiJoho
MJ022706 MJ022706:E0101 MJ022707:E0102 MJ022705:E0103
kMorohashi
31820:E0103
kNelson
4036
kPhonetic
112
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+7706+140.3.11
kRSUnicode
140.11
kSBGY
175.29 310.35
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
597.04
kSMSZD2003Readings
jiǎng粵zoeng2
kTaiwanTelegraph
5592
kTotalStrokes
14
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kXerox
251:075
kXHC1983
0560.061:jiǎng