U+8286 "芆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8286 "芆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character composed of the grass radical (艹) on top and the phonetic component "义" below. It is traditionally pronounced as "chai" in Mandarin and generally refers to a type of medicinal herb or plant. This ideograph is part of the larger CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified character set, which standardizes East Asian logographic scripts for digital communication. While not common in modern everyday writing, "芆" appears in some classical Chinese texts and dictionaries, reflecting its historical usage in botanical and medical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8286
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	芆
HTML Hex Encoding	芆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8A 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8286
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008286
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8286

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

kCNS1986	E-2728
kCNS1992	3-2728
kCangjie	TIK
kCantonese	ngaai6
kFanqie	楚佳
kGB3	7223
kHanYu	53176.040 53177.061
kHanyuPinyin	53176.040:chāi,chā
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53177.061
kIRGKangXi	1019.061
kIRG_GSource	G3-6837
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-021504
kIRG_TSource	T3-2728
kJapanese	サ シャ サイ セ
kKangXi	1018.030
kMandarin	chāi
kMojiJoho	MJ021504
kMorohashi	30666
kRSUnicode	140.3
kSBGY	093.42
kTotalStrokes	6