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U+8538 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8538

U+8538 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+4E00 to U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as counter for plants. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is dōu.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+8538 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	34104
UTF-8	E8 94 B8
UTF-16	85 38
UTF-32	00 00 85 38
URL-Quoted	%E8%94%B8
HTML-Escape	蔸
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	è¸
Pīnyīn	dōu

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8538
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Script	Han
Bidirectional Category	Left To Right
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-8538
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-8538
Lowercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-8538
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-8538
Uppercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-8538
Simple Titlecase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-8538
Titlecase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-8538
Case Folding	CJK Unified Ideograph-8538
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✔
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	CJK Unified Ideograph-8538
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✔
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✔
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	CJK Unified Ideograph-8538
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Other Letter
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✔
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Other
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✔
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	CJK Unified Ideograph-8538
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Wide
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Ideographic
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	CJK Unified Ideograph-8538
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	U
Cangjie Input Code	THVU
kCantonese	dau1
Unihan Definition	counter for plants
kEACC	4C4146
kFourCornerCode	4421
kGB0	6190
kGB1	6190
kHKSCS	99C1
kHanYu	53281.010
kHanyuPinyin	53281.010:dōu
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53281.010
kIRGKangXi	1056.121
kIRG_GSource	G0-5D7A
kIRG_HSource	H-99C1
kIRG_TSource	T4-4C74
kKangXi	1056.121
kMandarin	dōu
kPhonetic	1319*
Radical Stroke Count (KangXi)	140.11
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode)	140.11
kTGH	2013:5650
kTGHZ2013	079.100:dōu
Stroke Number	14
UnihanCore2020 Set	GH
kXHC1983	0262.010:dōu
Xerox Code	321:104