U+8352 "荒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
荒
U+8352 "荒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily signifies the concept of waste, desolation, or barrenness, often used to describe land that is uncultivated, wild, or infertile. It can also carry extended meanings related to famine, scarcity, or neglect, and is commonly found in compound words such as 荒原 (huāngyuán) for wilderness or 荒废 (huāngfèi) for abandonment. In classical and modern Chinese texts, the character evokes a sense of emptiness or disuse, and it is frequently employed in literary contexts to describe a state of ruin or extreme hardship, reflecting its deep roots in East Asian cultural and philosophical traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8352 |
| 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 | 荒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 荒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8D 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8352 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008352 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8352 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AFEE |
| kCCCII | 215473 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5772 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5772 |
| kCangjie | TYVU |
| kCantonese | fong1 |
| kCihaiT | 1138.302 |
| kCowles | 781 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1490.080 |
| kDefinition | wasteland, desert; uncultivated |
| kEACC | 215473 |
| kFanqie | 呼光 呼浪 |
| kFenn | 649D |
| kFennIndex | 205.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4421.1 |
| kGB0 | 2736 |
| kGB1 | 2736 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0742e' |
| kHangul | 황:0E |
| kHanYu | 53209.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | huāng(54) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53209.020:huāng,huǎng,kāng,huáng |
| kHKGlyph | 3437 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1490.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53209.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1031.080 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3B44 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AFEE |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3953 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F6EE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7C58 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5772 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-647E |
| kJapanese | コウ あらい あれる あらす すさむ あれ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1412 |
| kJapaneseKun | ARERU ARAI ARASU |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU |
| kJis0 | 2551 |
| kKangXi | 1031.080 |
| kKarlgren | 103 |
| kKorean | HWANG |
| kLau | 714 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5435 |
| kMandarin | huāng |
| kMatthews | 2271 |
| kMeyerWempe | 526 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021897 MJ021897:E0102 MJ021898:E0103 MJ021899:E0104 MJ060100:E0105 MJ058459:E0106 MJ060106:E0107 MJ060384:E0108 |
| kMorohashi | 30953' 30953':E0102 30953:E0103 |
| kNelson | 3941 |
| kPhonetic | 375 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2021+140.3.6 V+13772+140.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.6 |
| kSBGY | 180.48 428.45 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 580.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | huāng粵fong1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5435 |
| kTang | *xuɑng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 145.220:huāng |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | hoang |
| kXerox | 247:310 |
| kXHC1983 | 0492.050:huāng |