U+8408 "萈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8408 "萈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character composed of the "grass" radical (艹) over a phonetic component, often associated with a type of edible wild plant or herb, possibly resembling certain species of amaranth or greens in classical texts, though its precise meaning remains obscure and it appears infrequently in modern usage. Its structure and historical presence are noted in the Kangxi Dictionary and older literary references, where it may also intersect with variant forms of other characters in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographic repertoire, reflecting the complex lineage of written East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8408
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	萈
HTML Hex Encoding	萈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x90 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8408
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008408
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8408

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	227E7E
kCNS1986	E-3E50
kCNS1992	3-3E50
kCangjie	TBUI
kCantonese	wun4
kCihaiT	1148.202
kFanqie	胡官
kGB3	7248
kGSR	0165a
kHanYu	53233.090
kHanyuPinyin	53233.090:huán
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53233.090
kIRGKangXi	1040.310
kIRG_GSource	G3-6850
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-022205
kIRG_TSource	T3-3E50
kJapanese	カン ガン
kKangXi	1040.310
kKarlgren	101
kMandarin	huán
kMojiJoho	MJ022205
kMorohashi	31257
kRSUnicode	140.8
kSBGY	123.52
kTotalStrokes	11