U+8438 "萸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8438 "萸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character pronounced "yú" in Mandarin and is a common component in the written names of certain plants, most notably Cornus officinalis, known in Chinese medicine as shān zhū yú (Cornus fruit). In classical texts and traditional Chinese medicine, "萸" specifically refers to a medicinal herb with astringent properties used to nourish the kidneys and stabilize bodily fluids. The character is structurally classified under the radical for grass or plants (艹) and carries the phonetic component "臾" indicating sound, while its semantic field relates to herbaceous plants or shrubs valued for their fruit or fragrance. Though less common in everyday modern writing, "萸" remains culturally significant in contexts such as poetry, traditional medicine formulas like Liu Wei Di Huang Wan, and seasonal references to the Double Ninth Festival when people would wear zhū yú (dogwood) to ward off misfortune.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8438
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	萸
HTML Hex Encoding	萸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x90 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8438
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008438
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8438

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	B5E3
kCCCII	215559
kCNS1986	1-6169
kCNS1992	1-6169
kCangjie	THXO
kCantonese	jyu4
kCihaiT	1149.401
kCowles	4882
kDaeJaweon	1503.150
kDefinition	dogwood
kEACC	215559
kFanqie	羊朱
kFourCornerCode	4423.7
kGB0	6139
kGB1	6139
kHangul	유:0N
kHanYu	53235.130
kHanyuPinyin	53235.130:yú
kHKGlyph	3487
kIICore	AGTJHKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1503.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53235.130
kIRGKangXi	1043.050
kIRG_GSource	G0-5D47
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B5E3
kIRG_JSource	J0-6850
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-FBD2
kIRG_KSource	K0-6B2D
kIRG_TSource	T1-6169
kJapanese	ユ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:4755
kJapaneseOn	YU
kJis0	7248
kKangXi	1043.050
kKorean	YU
kMainlandTelegraph	5505
kMandarin	yú
kMeyerWempe	3631
kMojiJoho	MJ022273 MJ022273:E0101 MJ022274:E0102
kMorohashi	31356:E0102
kPhonetic	1609
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6393+140.3.9
kRSUnicode	140.9
kSMSZD2003Index	588.06
kSMSZD2003Readings	yú粵jyu4
kTaiwanTelegraph	5505
kTang	io
kTGHZ2013	446.160:yú
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	273:345
kXHC1983	1409.080:yú