U+8427 "萧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8427 "萧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents the concept of "desolate" or "bleak," often used in classical and modern Chinese to describe a scene of loneliness, sparse vegetation, or a quiet, wind-swept atmosphere. It is a simplified form of the traditional character "蕭," and appears in common terms such as "萧条" meaning depression or recession in economic contexts, and "萧瑟" evoking a chilly, melancholy feeling. Beyond its literal meanings, "萧" is also a common Chinese surname, historically borne by figures like the great Han dynasty chancellor Xiao He. In Unicode, it belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block, with a total of 18 strokes in its simplified form, and its usage spans both literary and everyday writing across East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+8427
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 萧
HTML Hex Encoding 萧
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x90 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8427
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008427
C/C++/Java Escape \u8427

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 275622
kCangjie XTLX
kCantonese siu1
kDefinition common artemisia; dejected
kEACC 275622
kFourCornerCode 4422
kGB0 4784
kHanYu 53241.080
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53241.080
kIRGKangXi 1042.261
kIRG_GSource G0-4F74
kTGH 2013:2216
kKangXi 1042.261
kMainlandTelegraph 5618
kMandarin xiāo
kPhonetic 1261*
kRSUnicode 140.8
kSMSZD2003Index 588.13
kTGHZ2013 403.020:xiāo
kTotalStrokes 11
kTraditionalVariant "蕭" U+856D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1265.030:xiāo