U+8579 "蕹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+8579 "蕹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the water spinach plant, known scientifically as Ipomoea aquatica and commonly called "ong choy" or "kangkong" in various Asian cuisines. This logogram is composed of the radical for grass or plant components and phonetic elements, and it appears in traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean written forms as a specific term for this leafy vegetable. In modern usage, the character is primarily encountered in agricultural, culinary, and botanical contexts, particularly in regions where water spinach is a staple ingredient.
General Properties
Code Point
U+8579
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
蕹
HTML Hex Encoding
蕹
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x95 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8579
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008579
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8579
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
EE52
kCCCII
23262D
kCNS1986
2-5E7E
kCNS1992
2-5E7E
kCangjie
TYVG
kCantonese
ung3
kCihaiT
1171.307
kDaeJaweon
1523.200
kDefinition
Ipomoea aquatica used as a vegetable
kEACC
23262D
kFanqie
於容
kFourCornerCode
4421.4
kGB0
6219
kGB1
6219
kHanYu
53306.050
kHanyuPinyin
53306.050:yōng,wèng
kIICore
CT
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53306.050
kIRG_GSource
G0-5E33
kIRG_HSource
HB2-EE52
kIRG_JSource
J1-5953
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-6FF4
kIRG_KSource
K2-5972
kIRG_TSource
T2-5E7E
kJapanese
ヨウ ユ
kTGH
2013:7844
kJapaneseKun
ATSUMERU
kJapaneseOn
YOU YU
kJis1
5751
kKangXi
1059.380
kMandarin
wèng
kMatthews
7558
kMojiJoho
MJ022864 MJ022864:E0101 MJ022865:E0102
kMorohashi
32057:E0102
kPhonetic
1652
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+22375+140.3.13
kRSUnicode
140.13
kSMSZD2003Index
600.06
kSMSZD2003Readings
wèng粵ung3
kTGHZ2013
386.150:wèng
kTotalStrokes
16
kUnihanCore2020
GHMT
kXerox
321:111
kXHC1983
1208.120:wèng