U+8406 "萆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
萆
U+8406 "萆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character classified as a radical 艸 (grass) component with 11 total strokes, carrying the primary meaning of a type of medicinal herb or plant, specifically identified in classical texts as the "bryony" or similar climbing plants. It is used in Traditional Chinese and Kangxi dictionaries, often appearing in terms related to herbal medicine and botanical descriptions, and its pronunciation in Mandarin Chinese is bì. This character is not commonly used in modern everyday writing but retains significance in classical literature and specialized fields like traditional pharmacology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8406 |
| 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 | 萆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 萆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x90 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8406 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008406 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8406 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | DB7C |
| kCCCII | 232235 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3F61 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3F61 |
| kCangjie | THHJ |
| kCantonese | bei1 |
| kCihaiT | 1146.403 |
| kCowles | 3249 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1499.180 |
| kDefinition | the castor-oil plant |
| kEACC | 335568 |
| kFanqie | 胥里 房益 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4440.6 |
| kGB0 | 6141 |
| kGB1 | 6141 |
| kHangul | 비:1N |
| kHanYu | 53235.180 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53235.180:pì,bì,bēi,bá |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1499.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53235.180 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1040.290 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5D49 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-DB7C |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7B25 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6E40 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6328 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3F61 |
| kJapanese | ヒ ヘイ ハツ バチ ヘキ ビャク おおう |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:7127 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,91,05 |
| kJapaneseOn | HI HEI HATSU BACHI |
| kJis1 | 5638 |
| kKangXi | 1040.290 |
| kKorean | PI |
| kMandarin | bì |
| kMatthews | 5071 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2308 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022201 MJ022201:E0101 MJ022202:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31255:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 1029 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17082+140.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.8 |
| kSBGY | 252.29 519.26 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+84D6<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 587.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | bēi粵bei1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5489 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 019.060:bì |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 277:064 |
| kXHC1983 | 0061.050:bì |