U+8364 "荤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
荤
U+8364 "荤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to meat or strong-smelling foods, often used in the context of "荤菜" meaning meat dishes, as opposed to "素菜" which are vegetarian dishes. It can also denote strong or pungent flavors, such as garlic or onion, and in a broader cultural sense, it relates to foods that are considered rich or heavy in traditional Chinese dietary customs. Historically, the character’s radical (艹, grass) combines with a phonetic component, yet its meaning has evolved to emphasize non-vegetarian items, making it a common term in everyday cooking and religious or dietary classifications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8364 |
| 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 | 荤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 荤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8D 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8364 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008364 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8364 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275553 |
| kCangjie | TBKQ |
| kCantonese | fan1 |
| kDefinition | meat diet; strong smelling |
| kEACC | 275553 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4450 |
| kGB0 | 2771 |
| kHanYu | 53210.140 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53210.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1031.381 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3B67 |
| kTGH | 2013:1416 |
| kKangXi | 1031.381 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5526 |
| kMandarin | hūn |
| kRSUnicode | 140.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 581.05 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 149.250:hūn |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "葷" U+8477 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0506.080:hūn 1313.010:xūn |