U+834A "荊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
荊
U+834A "荊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally classified as a thorny plant, often referring to the chaste tree or certain types of brambles, and it appears in classical texts such as historical records and poetry. In modern usage across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, it can also connote punishment or hardship, as seen in the compound word "荊棘" meaning thorns or difficulties, and it is notably used in the name of the ancient region Jingzhou. The character is composed of the grass radical and a phonetic component, reflecting its botanical origin while carrying cultural weight in East Asian literature and iconography, such as in the story of the "Vinegar Tasters" or depictions of penitential rods.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+834A |
| 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 | 荊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 荊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8D 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x834A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000834A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u834a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AFF0 |
| kCCCII | 215474 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5774 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5774 |
| kCangjie | TMTN |
| kCantonese | ging1 |
| kCihaiT | 1148.301 |
| kCowles | 1672 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1489.090 |
| kDefinition | thorns; brambles; my wife; cane |
| kEACC | 215474 |
| kFanqie | 舉卿 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4440.0 |
| kGSR | 0808i |
| kHangul | 형:0N |
| kHanYu | 10339.021 |
| kHKGlyph | 3439 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1489.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10339.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1031.381 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-494C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AFF0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3755 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F3EC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7B2A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5774 |
| kIRG_VSource | VN-0834A |
| kJapanese | ケイ キョウ いばら |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | IBARA MUCHI |
| kJapaneseOn | KEI KYOU |
| kJis0 | 2353 |
| kKangXi | 1031.381 |
| kKorean | HYENG |
| kMandarin | jīng |
| kMatthews | 1116 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021877 MJ021877:E0101 MJ021880:E0102 MJ021878:E0103 MJ021879:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | H520:E0103 |
| kNelson | 0591 0689 |
| kPhonetic | 1585 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1835+140.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.6 |
| kSBGY | 186.08 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8346<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "荆" U+8346 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 580.07 62.10 588.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jīng粵ging1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5427 |
| kTang | *giæng |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 260:376 |