U+8281 "芁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8281 "芁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character composed of the grass radical (艹) over a phonetic component, and it primarily appears in classical or specialized texts as a variant form of other characters, often associated with meanings related to plants or herbs. In modern Chinese, it is not a common character in everyday usage, and its exact definition can vary depending on historical sources, with some dictionaries listing it as a variant of terms for certain medicinal herbs or as a component in ancient names. Its occurrence is mostly limited to literary, historical, or very specific domain contexts rather than in standard contemporary writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8281
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	芁
HTML Hex Encoding	芁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8A 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8281
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008281
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8281

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	THN
kCantonese	kau4
kFanqie	古肴
kGB5	7128
kHanYu	53173.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53173.030
kIRGKangXi	1017.150
kIRG_GSource	G5-673C
kIRG_JSource	J1-5730
kIRG_TSource	T4-232F
kJapanese	コウ
kJapaneseOn	KOU
kJis1	5516
kKangXi	1017.150
kMandarin	jiāo
kMojiJoho	MJ021496 MJ021496:E0101 MJ021497:E0102
kMorohashi	30654:E0102
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22298+16.2.3 C+22298+140.3.2
kRSUnicode	140.2
kSBGY	152.27
kTotalStrokes	5