U+8254 "艔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8254 "艔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obsolete Chinese character primarily used in classical or historical texts, rather than in modern standard Mandarin. It is composed of the radical 艹 (grass or plant) and the phonetic component 到 (dào), suggesting a possible meaning related to plants, vegetation, or a specific type of herb, though its exact definition is obscure and not well documented in common dictionaries. This character belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing systems, and its usage is largely limited to specialized scholarly contexts or digital encoding for legacy texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8254
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	艔
HTML Hex Encoding	艔
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x89 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8254
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008254
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8254

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCangjie	HYITE
kCantonese	dou6
kCheungBauer	137/09;HYITE;dou6/2
kCheungBauerIndex	455.07
kDefinition	(Cant.) boat
kHanYu	53065.011
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53065.011
kIRGKangXi	1011.511
kIRG_GSource	GH-1111
kIRG_HSource	H-99AC
kIRG_VSource	V2-8231
kKangXi	1011.511
kMandarin	dào
kPseudoGB1	9244
kRSUnicode	137.9
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	H