U+8289 "芉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
芉
U+8289 "芉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and lesser-used Chinese character that primarily functions as a variant or ancient form of more common characters, often associated meanings related to grass or herbaceous plants due to the "艹" (grass radical) component. In standard modern Chinese, it is not frequently encountered in everyday writing or speech, but it may appear in historical texts, classical literature, or specialized dictionaries where it can represent an archaic term for a type of plant or a phonetic component. Its usage is highly restricted and largely obsolete in contemporary contexts, making it more of interest to linguists, etymologists, or scholars studying ancient Chinese scripts rather than to general readers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8289 |
| 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 | 芉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 芉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8A 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8289 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008289 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8289 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 252E5F |
| kCangjie | TMJ |
| kCantonese | gon1 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1476.060 |
| kGB3 | 7216 |
| kHanYu | 53174.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53174.040:gān,gǎn |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1476.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53174.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1018.060 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6830 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-5734 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6D0A |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-567C |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-2475 |
| kJapanese | カン |
| kJapaneseKun | HATOMUGI |
| kJapaneseOn | KAI KAN |
| kJis1 | 5520 |
| kKangXi | 1018.060 |
| kMandarin | gān |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021507 MJ021507:E0101 MJ021508:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 30668:E0102 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19731+51.3.3 C+19731+140.3.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.3 |
| kTotalStrokes | 6 |