U+831C "茜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
茜
U+831C "茜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "madder," a plant from which a red dye is historically derived, and it is also used as a component in names and poetic contexts to evoke the color crimson or a deep reddish hue. In modern usage, it appears in personal names, particularly for women, and in words like "茜色" (akane-iro) in Japanese, which refers to a vibrant sunset red. The character is composed of the radical for grass (艹) and the phonetic component "西," reflecting its botanical origin, and it carries cultural associations with natural beauty and vivid coloration across Chinese and Japanese written traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+831C |
| 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 | 茜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 茜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8C 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x831C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000831C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u831c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D37D |
| kCCCII | 2E7C2E |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3241 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3241 |
| kCangjie | TMCW |
| kCantonese | sin6 |
| kCihaiT | 1138.501 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1486.240 |
| kDefinition | madder, Rubia cordifolia; reeds |
| kEACC | 2E7C2E |
| kFanqie | 倉甸 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4460.1 |
| kGB0 | 6071 |
| kGB1 | 6071 |
| kHangul | 천:1N |
| kHanYu | 53200.120 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53200.120:qiàn,xī |
| kIICore | AGTJHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1486.240 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53200.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1027.280 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5C67 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D37D |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-302B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6DA7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6F3B |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3241 |
| kJapanese | セン あかね |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:4108 |
| kJapaneseKun | AKANE |
| kJapaneseOn | SEN |
| kJis0 | 1611 |
| kKangXi | 1027.280 |
| kKorean | CHEN |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5409 |
| kMandarin | qiàn |
| kMatthews | 929 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2811a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021774 MJ021774:E0101 MJ021775:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 30871:E0102 |
| kNelson | 3932 |
| kPhonetic | 1112 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1135+140.3.6 C+1135+146.6.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.6 |
| kSBGY | 406.34 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+84A8<kSMSZD2003Index:T |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 578.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qiàn粵sin6 xī粵sai1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5409 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 297.080:qiàn 391.110:xī |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 275:121 |
| kXHC1983 | 0915.100:qiàn 1228.030:xī |