U+835E "荞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+835E "荞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to buckwheat, a plant species (Fagopyrum esculentum) whose seeds are used as a grain. It appears in the common Chinese word "荞麦" (qiáomài), meaning buckwheat, and is frequently associated with foods like buckwheat noodles and pancakes in East Asian cuisine. Found in diverse scripts such as traditional and simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, this ideograph carries agricultural and culinary significance, often symbolizing a hardy crop that grows in poor soil conditions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+835E
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	荞
HTML Hex Encoding	荞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8D 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x835E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000835E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u835e

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	292571
kCangjie	THKL
kCantonese	kiu4
kDefinition	buckwheat
kEACC	292571
kFourCornerCode	4422
kGB0	6081
kHanYu	53205.060
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53205.060
kIRGKangXi	1031.381
kIRG_GSource	G0-5C71
kTGH	2013:4118
kKangXi	1031.381
kMainlandTelegraph	5606
kMandarin	qiáo
kPhonetic	636*
kRSUnicode	140.6
kSMSZD2003Index	581.10
kTGHZ2013	299.180:qiáo
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"蕎" U+854E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0921.010:qiáo