U+8284 "芄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

芄

U+8284 "芄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) used in the context of Classical Chinese and some historical or botanical texts. It represents a type of plant, specifically the root of the Metaplexis japonica, a vine known as the Japanese milkweed or rough potato, and is sometimes associated with medicinal or etymological references in traditional Chinese lexicon. This character falls under the radical for grass or herb (艹) and is composed of 6 strokes, classified within the CJK Unified Ideographs block, although it is rarely used in modern standard Chinese writing and appears more frequently in ancient or specialized literature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8284
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	芄
HTML Hex Encoding	芄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8A 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8284
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008284
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8284

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

kBigFive	CBA3
kCCCII	227C28
kCNS1986	2-2523
kCNS1992	2-2523
kCangjie	TKNI
kCantonese	jyun4
kCihaiT	1123.403
kCowles	4928
kDaeJaweon	1476.020
kDefinition	a sedgy plant
kEACC	227C28
kFanqie	胡官
kFourCornerCode	4451.7
kGB0	6025
kGB1	6025
kGSR	0163d
kHanYu	53177.060
kHanyuPinyin	53177.060:wán
kIRGDaeJaweon	1476.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53177.060
kIRGKangXi	1017.230
kIRG_GSource	G0-5C39
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CBA3
kIRG_JSource	J1-5732
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6D18
kIRG_KSource	K2-5679
kIRG_TSource	T2-2523
kJapanese	カンガン
kTGH	2013:3580
kJapaneseKun	GAGAIMO
kJapaneseOn	KAN GAN
kJis1	5518
kKangXi	1017.230
kMainlandTelegraph	5339
kMandarin	wán
kMojiJoho	MJ021501 MJ021501:E0101 MJ021502:E0102
kMorohashi	30663:E0102
kPhonetic	1627
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19730+140.3.3
kRSUnicode	140.3
kSBGY	123.45
kSMSZD2003Index	571.04
kSMSZD2003Readings	wán粵jyun4
kTaiwanTelegraph	5339
kTGHZ2013	378.110:wán
kTotalStrokes	6
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	306:070