U+829C "芜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
芜
U+829C "芜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "overgrown with weeds" or "wilderness," and it is composed of the radical for grass (艹) combined with the phonetic component 无. It is used in classical and modern Chinese to describe land that is untended, overrun with vegetation, or in a state of neglect, and it also appears in compound words such as "荒芜" meaning desolate or barren. This character carries connotations of disuse or abandonment, and it is commonly found in literary and agricultural contexts to evoke imagery of wild growth or decay.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+829C |
| 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 | 芜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 芜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8A 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x829C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000829C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u829c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27557C |
| kCNS1986 | E-2A60 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2A60 |
| kCangjie | TMKU |
| kCantonese | mou4 |
| kDefinition | luxurious growth of weeds |
| kEACC | 27557C |
| kFourCornerCode | 4441 |
| kGB0 | 4663 |
| kHanYu | 53178.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53178.020:wú |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53178.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1019.130 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4E5F |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-021543 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2A60 |
| kJapanese | ブ ム |
| kTGH | 2013:662 |
| kKangXi | 1019.130 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5617 |
| kMandarin | wú |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021543 |
| kMorohashi | 30697 |
| kPhonetic | 911* |
| kRSUnicode | 140.4 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 574.10 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 388.120:wú |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "蕪" U+856A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1218.010:wú |