U+8305 "茅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
茅
U+8305 "茅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents the cogongrass plant, a type of perennial grass historically used for thatching roofs in East Asia. In modern Chinese, it appears in words like "茅台" (Moutai), referring to the famous liquor from Guizhou province, and can also denote a surname or a humble cottage. Its form combines the grass radical with the character for "spear," hinting at the plant's sharp leaves. The character is used in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese scripts, and it appears in Japanese and Korean contexts as well, often with similar meanings related to grass or thatch.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8305 |
| 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 | 茅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 茅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8C 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8305 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008305 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8305 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AD54 |
| kCCCII | 215461 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5337 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5337 |
| kCangjie | TNIH |
| kCantonese | maau4 |
| kCihaiT | 1133.502 |
| kCowles | 2595 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1485.130 |
| kDefinition | reeds, rushes, grass; surname |
| kEACC | 215461 |
| kFanqie | 莫交 直吕 |
| kFenn | 115G |
| kFennIndex | 331.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4422.2 |
| kGB0 | 3509 |
| kGB1 | 3509 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 1109c |
| kHangul | 모:0N |
| kHanYu | 53199.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | máo(17) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53199.010:máo |
| kHKGlyph | 3419 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1485.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53199.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1026.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4329 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AD54 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-337D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DBB4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5946 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5337 |
| kJapanese | ボウ ビョウ バイ かや ち ちがや |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1016 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAYA CHI |
| kJapaneseOn | BOU MYOU |
| kJis0 | 1993 |
| kKangXi | 1026.040 |
| kKorean | MO |
| kLau | 2072 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5403 |
| kMandarin | máo |
| kMatthews | 4364 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1756 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021745 MJ021745:E0101 MJ021746:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 30836:E0102 |
| kNelson | 3924 |
| kPhonetic | 869 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1499+110.5.3 C+1499+140.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.5 |
| kSBGY | 153.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 577.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | máo粵maau4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5403 |
| kTang | *mau |
| kTGHZ2013 | 244.080:máo |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 255:277 |
| kXHC1983 | 0768.090:máo |