# 荼 U+837C CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-837C

A Chinese character meaning “thistle, sowthistle; bitter”, read tú in Mandarin.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `荼` |
| Codepoint | U+837C |
| Name | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-837C |
| Block | [CJK Unified Ideographs](https://unicodekit.com/block/cjk-unified-ideographs) |
| Script | Han |
| Category | Other Letter (Lo) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `荼` `荼` |
| CSS | `\837C` |
| JavaScript | `\u837C` |
| UTF-8 | E8 8D BC |
| UTF-16 | 837C |
| Definition | thistle, sowthistle; bitter |
| Mandarin | tú |
| Cantonese | tou4 |
| Japanese | TO DO TA NIGANA |

## Related characters

- 荻 [U+837B CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-837B](https://unicodekit.com/char/837B)
- 荽 [U+837D CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-837D](https://unicodekit.com/char/837D)
- 荺 [U+837A CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-837A](https://unicodekit.com/char/837A)
- 荾 [U+837E CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-837E](https://unicodekit.com/char/837E)
- 荹 [U+8379 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8379](https://unicodekit.com/char/8379)
- 荿 [U+837F CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-837F](https://unicodekit.com/char/837F)
- 荸 [U+8378 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8378](https://unicodekit.com/char/8378)
- 莀 [U+8380 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8380](https://unicodekit.com/char/8380)
- 荷 [U+8377 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8377](https://unicodekit.com/char/8377)
- 莁 [U+8381 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8381](https://unicodekit.com/char/8381)
- 荶 [U+8376 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8376](https://unicodekit.com/char/8376)
- 莂 [U+8382 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8382](https://unicodekit.com/char/8382)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/837C · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/837C