U+8297 "芗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8297 "芗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in East Asian languages, particularly in classical and modern Chinese contexts, where it denotes a type of fragrant herb or aromatic plant, sometimes associated with angelica or similar botanicals used in traditional medicine and cuisine. This character, composed of a radical for grass or plant components, appears in historical texts and place names, and its usage often extends to poetic or descriptive language emphasizing scent or rural landscapes. In Unicode, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, supporting digital representation and text processing across systems for languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where its precise meaning and pronunciation may vary slightly. The Unicode character U+8297 "芗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is

General Properties

Code Point	U+8297
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	芗
HTML Hex Encoding	芗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8A 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8297
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008297
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8297

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

kCCCII	292577
kCangjie	TVVH
kCantonese	hoeng1
kDefinition	fragrant smell of grain; aromatic
kEACC	292577
kFourCornerCode	4420
kGB0	6028
kHanYu	53177.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53177.070
kIRGKangXi	1019.061
kIRG_GSource	G0-5C3C
kTGH	2013:3584
kKangXi	1019.061
kMainlandTelegraph	5577
kMandarin	xiāng
kRSUnicode	140.3
kSMSZD2003Index	571.12
kTGHZ2013	400.100:xiāng
kTotalStrokes	6
kTraditionalVariant	"薌" U+858C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1257.020:xiāng