U+82C8 "苈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+82C8 "苈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character, a logogram used in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK), which features the radical for grass or plant (艹) over a phonetic component. Its most common meaning is "shepherd's purse" or "capsella bursa-pastoris," a type of edible wild herb often found in East Asian cuisine and traditional medicine. This character is classified under the Unihan (Unified CJK Ideographs) block and is encoded for use in text processing and digital communication, representing a specific part of the extensive CJK script system with both semantic and phonetic attributes derived from historical Chinese character composition.

General Properties

Code Point	U+82C8
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	苈
HTML Hex Encoding	苈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8B 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x82C8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000082C8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u82c8

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	292765
kCangjie	XTMKS
kCantonese	lik6
kDefinition	Draba nemorosa
kEACC	292765
kFourCornerCode	4422
kGB0	6034
kHanYu	53179.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53179.070
kIRGKangXi	1022.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-5C42
kTGH	2013:3663
kKangXi	1022.181
kMandarin	lì
kRSUnicode	140.4
kSMSZD2003Index	574.16
kTGHZ2013	217.040:lì
kTotalStrokes	7
kTraditionalVariant	"藶" U+85F6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0700.050:lì