U+8360 "荠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
荠
U+8360 "荠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally refers to Capsella bursa-pastoris, a small edible herb known as shepherd's purse, commonly used in East Asian cuisine, particularly in soups and dumplings. In modern Chinese, it is most often pronounced as "jì" in this sense, but it can also be read as "qí" when used in the compound "荸荠" (bí qí), meaning water chestnut. The character belongs to the radical for grass (艹) and is composed of 9 strokes, reflecting its botanical association. It appears in classical literature, such as in the ancient poetry collection the Book of Songs (Shijing), where it is praised as a humble yet flavorful wild plant.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8360 |
| 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 | 荠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 荠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8D 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8360 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008360 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8360 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | TYKL |
| kCantonese | cai5 |
| kDefinition | water-chestnuts; caltrop |
| kEACC | 292661 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4422 |
| kGB0 | 6089 |
| kHanYu | 53208.040 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53208.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1031.381 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5C79 |
| kTGH | 2013:4126 |
| kKangXi | 1031.381 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5654 |
| kMandarin | jì |
| kPhonetic | 56 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 581.09 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 158.090:jì 291.110:qí |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "薺" U+85BA CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0532.020:jì 0895.010:qí |
| kStrange | I:U+8415 |