U+831D "茝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

茝

U+831D "茝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) and a Japanese kanji, historically known as a type of fragrant herb or medicinal plant, often identified with species like Angelica or silk wormwood. In classical Chinese texts, it appears in the context of poetry and philosophy, notably in the works of Qu Yuan where it symbolizes virtue and purity. The character is composed of the grass radical (艹) suggesting its botanical nature and the phonetic component 芷 (zhi), and it carries pronunciations such as "chǎi" in Mandarin and "kai" in Korean. Although considered rare in modern everyday usage, it remains significant in literary and historical studies, preserving ancient botanical associations and cultural references to fragrance and moral integrity.

General Properties

Code Point	U+831D
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	茝
HTML Hex Encoding	茝
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8C 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x831D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000831D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u831d

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	227D76
kCNS1986	E-384D
kCNS1992	3-384D
kCangjie	TSLL
kCantonese	coi2
kDaeJaweon	1487.010
kDefinition	(archaic) an aromatic grass
kEACC	227D76
kFanqie	諸市昌紿
kFourCornerCode	4471.6
kGB3	7293
kGB8	9432
kGSR	0960i
kHangul	채:1N
kHanYu	53214.170
kHanyuPinyin	53214.170:chǎi,zhǐ
kIRGDaeJaweon	1487.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53214.170
kIRGKangXi	1027.330
kIRG_GSource	G3-687D
kIRG_HSource	H-8F51
kIRG_JSource	J14-762D
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6DAD
kIRG_KSource	K1-6E79
kIRG_TSource	T3-384D
kJapanese	シサイセイよろいぐさ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:6950
kJIS0213	2,86,13
kJapaneseKun	YOROIGUSA
kJapaneseOn	SAI SEI SHI
kJis1	5569
kKangXi	1027.330
kKorean	CHAY
kMainlandTelegraph	5436
kMandarin	chǎi
kMojiJoho	MJ021776 MJ021776:E0101 MJ021777:E0102
kMorohashi	30876:E0102
kPhonetic	1543
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18487+140.3.7
kRSUnicode	140.7
kSBGY	250.42
kSMSZD2003Index	581.25
kSMSZD2003Readings	chǎi粵coi2 zhǐ粵zi2
kTaiwanTelegraph	5436
kTGHZ2013	036.050:chǎi
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	GH
kXHC1983	0116.050:chǎi