U+8318 "茘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
茘
U+8318 "茘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in traditional and simplified writing systems, representing a rare or variant form of the character 荔, which commonly refers to the lychee fruit (Litchi chinensis) or the plant itself. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block and is composed of the "grass" radical (艹) atop a phonetic component, signifying its botanical association. In modern usage, this particular glyph is less frequent than its standard counterpart, but it appears in classical texts, calligraphy, and some regional typographic traditions, preserving an alternate orthographic history within East Asian scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8318 |
| 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 | 茘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 茘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8C 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8318 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008318 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8318 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 252F41 |
| kCNS1986 | E-3362 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-3362 |
| kCangjie | TSHH |
| kCantonese | lai6 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1486.190 |
| kDefinition | a scallion, small onion |
| kEACC | 2D5476 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4422.7 |
| kHanYu | 53212.040 |
| kIICore | CJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1486.190 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53212.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1027.230 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4945 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8F4A |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-682D |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5741 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-3362 |
| kJapanese | レイ リ |
| kJapaneseKun | OONIRA |
| kJapaneseOn | RI REI REN |
| kJis0 | 7213 |
| kKangXi | 1027.230 |
| kMandarin | lì |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021768 MJ021768:E0101 MJ021769:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 30866:E0102 |
| kNelson | 3934 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6358+140.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 578.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | lì粵lai6 |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJ |