U+8448 "葈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
葈
U+8448 "葈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used ideograph from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character set. In Chinese, it is traditionally pronounced as "xǐ" and refers to a type of plant, specifically the hemp or ramie plant (Boehmeria nivea), which is historically cultivated for its durable fibers used in textiles. The character combines the grass radical (艹) on top, indicating its botanical nature, with the phonetic component "枲" that suggests its sound. In modern usage, "葈" is largely obsolete, having been supplanted by more common characters such as "麻" for hemp, though it occasionally appears in classical texts and specialized lexicons documenting ancient botanical terms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8448 |
| 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 | 葈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 葈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x91 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8448 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008448 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8448 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 232325 |
| kCNS1986 | E-442C |
| kCNS1992 | 3-442C |
| kCangjie | TIRD |
| kCantonese | saai2 |
| kCihaiT | 1156.105 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1504.170 |
| kDefinition | Xanthium strumarium |
| kGB3 | 7413 |
| kHanYu | 53258.130 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53258.130:xǐ |
| kIBMJapan | FB98 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1504.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53258.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1044.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6A2D |
| kIRG_HSource | H-98F9 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7B28 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6E94 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5853 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-442C |
| kJapanese | シ |
| kJIS0213 | 1,91,08 |
| kJapaneseKun | KARAMUSHI |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI |
| kJis1 | 5649 |
| kKangXi | 1044.020 |
| kMandarin | xǐ |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022299 MJ022299:E0101 MJ022300:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31386:E0102 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+8605+140.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.9 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 591.15 327.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xǐ粵saai2,sai2 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |