U+8279 "艹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
艹
U+8279 "艹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that functions as a radical meaning "grass" or "herb," and is commonly found as a component in more complex characters related to plants, vegetation, or botanical concepts. It appears in the Kangxi Dictionary within radical 140 (艸), and its simplified form consists of two horizontal strokes with vertical variations, often used at the top of characters to indicate a connection to flora. This character is not typically used as an independent word in modern Chinese but serves as a foundational element in the writing system, appearing in over a thousand compound characters such as "花" (flower) and "草" (grass).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8279 |
| 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 | 艹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 艹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x89 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8279 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008279 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8279 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 287B77 |
| kCangjie | XT |
| kCantonese | cou2 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1475.070 |
| kDefinition | grass; Kangxi radical 140 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4400 |
| kGB0 | 6019 |
| kGB1 | 6019 |
| kHanYu | 53172.011 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1475.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53172.011 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1017.011 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5C33 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-994A |
| kIRG_JSource | J4-7576 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5672 |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-2153 |
| kJapanese | ソウ くさかんむり |
| kJIS0213 | 2,85,86 |
| kKangXi | 1017.011 |
| kMandarin | cao |
| kMatthews | 6739 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021481 MJ030292:FE00 MJ030293:FE01 MJ030292:E0103 MJ030293:E0104 MJ021481:E0105 |
| kMorohashi | 30639:FE01 30639:E0104 |
| kPhonetic | 213 228 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14197+140.3.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.0 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8278<kMatthews U+8349<kMatthews |
| kSpoofingVariant | U+5344 U+535D |
| kTotalStrokes | 3 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXerox | 324:322 |