U+8308 "茈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
茈
U+8308 "茈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a noun referring to the edible taro plant, specifically Colocasia esculenta, or less commonly the gromwell plant (Lithospermum erythrorhizon), which yields a purple dye. In classical and modern Chinese texts, it can also denote a type of moss or seaweed, and it appears in compound words like 紫茈 (purple taro) or personal names, though its usage is relatively specialized and less frequent in everyday language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8308 |
| 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 | 茈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 茈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8C 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8308 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008308 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8308 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D3A5 |
| kCCCII | 227D45 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3247 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3247 |
| kCangjie | TYMP |
| kCantonese | ci4 |
| kCihaiT | 1134.301 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1486.030 |
| kDefinition | comfrey; a plant yielding a purple dye |
| kEACC | 2D4450 |
| kFanqie | 疾移 士佳 將此 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4411.1 |
| kGB0 | 6075 |
| kGB1 | 6075 |
| kHangul | 자:1N |
| kHanYu | 53202.130 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53202.130:zǐ,cí,cǐ,chái |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1486.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53202.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1026.080 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5C6B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D3A5 |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-7629 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6D6A |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6A7B |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3247 |
| kJapanese | サイ シ ジ ジャ ゼ ぜんまい むらさき |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:6787 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,86,09 |
| kJapaneseKun | MURASAKI |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI JI SAI JU |
| kJis1 | 5564 |
| kKangXi | 1026.080 |
| kKorean | CA |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5402 |
| kMandarin | cí |
| kMatthews | 6978 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021752 MJ021752:E0101 MJ021751:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 30840:E0102 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+18483+140.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.5 |
| kSBGY | 046.32 093.33 246.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 578.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | cí粵ci4 zǐ粵zi2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5402 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 055.030:cí 492.040:zǐ |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 313:243 |
| kXHC1983 | 0174.020:cí 1530.180:zǐ |