U+8290 "芐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

芐

U+8290 "芐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "lower part of clothing" or "inside of clothes," and it is also historically used as a phonetic loan for a type of medicinal plant, specifically the root of Rehmannia glutinosa (often referring to the herb di huang). This ideograph belongs to the Kangxi radical 140 (艸, meaning grass or plant) and has 8 total strokes in its composition, blending the semantic component of plant life with a phonetic element. The character is relatively rare in modern Chinese usage but appears in classical texts and traditional medicine contexts, contributing to the extensive CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set designed to encode East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8290
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	芐
HTML Hex Encoding	芐
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8A 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8290
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008290
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8290

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	CB79
kCCCII	227C26
kCNS1986	2-2479
kCNS1992	2-2479
kCangjie	TMY
kCantonese	wu6
kCihaiT	1123.502
kDaeJaweon	1476.160
kFanqie	侯古胡駕
kFourCornerCode	4423.1
kGB3	7217
kGSR	0035d
kHangul	호:N
kHanYu	53174.100
kHanyuPinyin	53174.100:hù,xià
kIRGDaeJaweon	1476.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53174.100
kIRGKangXi	1018.180
kIRG_GSource	G3-6831
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CB79
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-021521
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6D17
kIRG_KSource	K2-567E
kIRG_TSource	T2-2479
kJapanese	コゴカゲ
kKoreanName	2015
kKangXi	1018.180
kMandarin	hù
kMojiJoho	MJ021521
kMorohashi	30680
kPhonetic	412
kRSUnicode	140.3
kSBGY	267.26 422.49
kTotalStrokes	6
kUnihanCore2020	HMT