U+8346 "荆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
荆
U+8346 "荆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in the Chinese writing system, where it primarily refers to the chaste tree or Vitex, a type of shrub or small tree, and by extension it can denote a bramble or thorny thicket. Historically, this character appears in classical texts and modern Chinese as a component in words for certain plants and in the name of the ancient region Jingzhou, and it is also notably part of the term for a humbly offered apology or penance, as in "负荆请罪" to bear the thorned stick and submit to punishment. In Japanese, it is used similarly as a kanji with the on'yomi reading "kei" or "kyo" and the kun'yomi "ibara" for thorn, and it appears in place names and traditional contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8346 |
| 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 | 荆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 荆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8D 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8346 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008346 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8346 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCNS1986 | E-3E57 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-3E57 |
| kCangjie | TTLN |
| kCantonese | ging1 |
| kCihaiT | 1136.504 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1489.090 |
| kDefinition | thorns; brambles; my wife; cane |
| kFanqie | 舉卿 |
| kFenn | 34aD |
| kFennIndex | 79.10 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4240 |
| kGB0 | 3003 |
| kGB1 | 3003 |
| kHanYu | 10339.020 10349.160 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10339.020,10349.160:jīng |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1489.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10339.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1030.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3E23 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-021868 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6E6A |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-3E57 |
| kJapanese | ケイ いばら |
| kTGH | 2013:1401 |
| kJapaneseKun | IBARA MUCHI |
| kJapaneseOn | KEI KYOU |
| kKangXi | 1030.110 |
| kKorean | HYENG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5427 |
| kMandarin | jīng |
| kMatthews | 1116 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1161 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021868 MJ021868:E0101 MJ021870:E0102 MJ021869:E0103 MJ021871:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 30940:E0103 31322:E0104 |
| kNelson | 0591 |
| kPhonetic | 1585 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7672+18.2.7 C+7672+140.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.6 18.8 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+834A<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "荆" U+8346 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTGHZ2013 | 178.120:jīng |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "荆" U+8346 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "荊" U+834A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0597.060:jīng |