U+8304 "茄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
茄
U+8304 "茄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes the eggplant or aubergine, a plant in the nightshade family cultivated for its edible fruit, and it is also used in compounds such as "番茄" meaning tomato and "茄子" meaning eggplant. This character is composed of the radical for grass or plant and a phonetic component, reflecting its botanical association, and it appears across various East Asian writing systems, including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and Korean Hanja, with consistent meaning related to these commonly consumed vegetables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8304 |
| 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 | 茄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 茄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8C 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8304 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008304 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8304 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AD58 |
| kCCCII | 215466 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-533B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-533B |
| kCangjie | TKSR |
| kCantonese | ke2 |
| kCihaiT | 1133.501 |
| kCowles | 1414 1946 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1485.120 |
| kDefinition | eggplant |
| kEACC | 215466 |
| kFanqie | 求迦 古牙 |
| kFenn | 716E |
| kFennIndex | 57.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4446.0 |
| kGB0 | 3949 |
| kGB1 | 3949 |
| kHangul | 가:0N |
| kHanYu | 53198.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiā(10) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53198.030:jiā,qié |
| kHKGlyph | 3423 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1485.120 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53198.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1026.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4751 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AD58 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3258 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CDB5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4A35 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-533B |
| kIRG_VSource | V0-4234 |
| kJapanese | カ なす |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1013 |
| kJapaneseKun | NASU |
| kJapaneseOn | KA |
| kJis0 | 1856 |
| kKangXi | 1026.020 |
| kKarlgren | 342 |
| kKorean | KA |
| kLau | 1675 1676 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5401 |
| kMandarin | jiā |
| kMatthews | 802 |
| kMeyerWempe | 930 1092 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021743 MJ021743:E0101 MJ021744:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 30835:E0102 |
| kNelson | 3914 |
| kPhonetic | 532 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1368+140.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.5 |
| kSBGY | 164.29 166.50 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 576.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qié粵ke2 jiā粵gaa1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5401 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 160.070:jiā 301.040:qié |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | nhà |
| kXerox | 256:310 |
| kXHC1983 | 0541.070:jiā 0923.060:qié |