U+8359 "荙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8359 "荙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in traditional script, representing a plant name often identified with the burdock root or a similar type of edible herb. It is composed of the radical for grass or plant, found on top, and a phonetic component beneath, which together form a logogram that appears in classical texts and modern dictionaries. In practical usage, this character is relatively rare, but it retains significance in contexts such as herbal medicine and botanical terminology, particularly when referring to the daisy family or related species. Its Unicode inclusion ensures it remains accessible for digital representation across languages and platforms, supporting proper orthography in Chinese and Japanese character sets.

General Properties

Code Point U+8359
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 荙
HTML Hex Encoding 荙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x8D 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8359
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008359
C/C++/Java Escape \u8359

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 292635
kCangjie XTYK
kCantonese daat6
kDefinition Plantago major
kFourCornerCode 4430.3
kHanYu 53201.071
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53201.071
kIRGKangXi 1036.401
kIRG_GSource G7-2122
kTGH 2013:6785
kKangXi 1036.401
kMandarin
kRSUnicode 140.6
kSMSZD2003Index 581.03
kTGHZ2013 061.130:dá
kTotalStrokes 9
kTraditionalVariant "薘" U+8598 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0189.070:dá