U+8315 "茕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8315 "茕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meaning of solitude or being alone, often used in classical and literary contexts to describe a state of isolation or orphanhood. It appears in compounds such as "茕茕孑立," a phrase from ancient texts like the “Book of Jin,” which evokes the image of someone standing forlorn and without companionship. The character is composed of the grass radical (艹) atop a phonetic component, and its pronunciation in Mandarin is qióng, reflecting a tone that underscores its melancholic connotation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8315
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	茕
HTML Hex Encoding	茕
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8C 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8315
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008315
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8315

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	4C5175
kCangjie	TBNJ
kCantonese	king4
kDefinition	alone; without friends or relatives
kEACC	4C5175
kFourCornerCode	4473
kGB0	6068
kHanYu	53197.040
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53197.040
kIRGKangXi	1027.201
kIRG_GSource	G0-5C64
kTGH	2013:3871
kKangXi	1027.201
kMainlandTelegraph	3560
kMandarin	qióng
kRSUnicode	140.5
kSMSZD2003Index	577.15
kTGHZ2013	305.040:qióng
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"煢" U+7162 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0938.030:qióng