U+840A "萊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
萊
U+840A "萊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to a type of edible plant, specifically the goosefoot or lamb's quarters (Chenopodium album), and is also used in the name of the ancient state of Lai in present-day Shandong Province, China. In modern usage, it appears in various compound words and personal names, retaining its connection to vegetation and historical geography. The character is composed of the grass radical combined with a phonetic component, and it is classified under the standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, supporting its use across multiple East Asian writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+840A |
| 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 | 萊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 萊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x90 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x840A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000840A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u840a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B5DC |
| kCCCII | 215541 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6162 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6162 |
| kCangjie | TDOO |
| kCantonese | loi4 |
| kCihaiT | 1146.501 |
| kCowles | 2448 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1499.230 |
| kDefinition | goosefoot, weed; fallow field |
| kEACC | 215541 |
| kFanqie | 洛哀 落代 |
| kFenn | 484I |
| kFennIndex | 285.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4490.8 |
| kGB1 | 3219 |
| kGSR | 0944j |
| kHangul | 래:0N |
| kHanYu | 53230.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53230.080:lái |
| kHKGlyph | 3480 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1499.230 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53230.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1041.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4033 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B5DC |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7B26 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D9FB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5551 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6162 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6534 |
| kJapanese | ライ リ |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,91,06 |
| kJapaneseKun | AKAZA AWACHI KOUGAI |
| kJapaneseOn | RAI RI |
| kJis1 | 5639 |
| kKangXi | 1041.020 |
| kKarlgren | 511 |
| kKorean | LAY |
| kMandarin | lái |
| kMatthews | 3772 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1646c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022207 MJ022207:E0101 MJ022208:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31262:E0102 |
| kNelson | 3960 |
| kPhonetic | 829 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7807+140.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.8 |
| kSBGY | 099.56 390.56 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "莱" U+83B1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 587.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | lái粵loi4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5490 |
| kTang | *ləi |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | lai |
| kXerox | 254:360 |
| kXHC1983 | 0671.021:lái |