U+8394 "莔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

莔

U+8394 "莔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of plant, specifically identified as a kind of bulbous herb or medicinal herb, sometimes equated with "貝母" (fritillary) in classical texts, though it can also mean "a place name" or carry an archaic, now rare usage. In modern contexts, it is most famously recognized in Chinese internet culture as a stylized emoticon resembling a smiling face with "cute" or "dazed" expressions, often used to convey sheepishness, embarrassment, or a playful frown, similar to the kaomoji "orz". This usage, pronounced as "jiǒng" in Mandarin, plays on the character's visual structure of a square surrounding the radical for "mouth" and "grass," giving it a wide-eyed, open-mouthed appearance that lends itself to emotional expression online.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8394
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	莔
HTML Hex Encoding	莔
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x8E 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8394
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008394
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8394

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

kBigFive	D766
kCCCII	227E2A
kCNS1986	2-386A
kCNS1992	2-386A
kCangjie	TWCB
kCantonese	maang4
kCihaiT	1140.502
kDaeJaweon	1493.100
kFanqie	武庚許迄
kFourCornerCode	4460.0
kGB3	7312
kHanYu	53219.120
kHanyuPinyin	53219.120:méng,xí,qǐng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1493.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53219.120
kIRGKangXi	1034.050
kIRG_GSource	G3-692C
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D766
kIRG_JSource	J14-7637
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6DDD
kIRG_KSource	K2-5771
kIRG_TSource	T2-386A
kJapanese	ボウケイミョウキツコチキョウ
kJIS0213	2,86,23
kJapaneseKun	HAHAGURI
kJapaneseOn	MOU MYOU KITSU KOCHI TEI KYOU
kJis1	5609
kKangXi	1034.050
kMandarin	méng
kMojiJoho	MJ021989 MJ021989:E0101 MJ021990:E0102
kMorohashi	31048:E0102
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18495+140.3.7
kRSUnicode	140.7
kSBGY	184.21 477.08
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	HMT