U+8449 "葉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
葉
U+8449 "葉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a leaf, and it is widely used in various East Asian languages, including Japanese and Korean, often carrying meanings related to foliage, thin flat parts of plants, or metaphorically to sheets of paper or pages. In modern Chinese, it is a common component in words like "樹葉" (shùyè, tree leaves), while in Japanese it also appears in terms such as "葉書" (hagaki, postcard) and "落葉" (ochiba, fallen leaves). The character is composed of the radical for grass or plants (艹) and the phonetic component (枽), reflecting its etymological connection to vegetative structures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8449 |
| 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 | 葉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 葉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x91 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8449 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008449 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8449 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B8AD |
| kCCCII | 21554F |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6634 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6634 |
| kCangjie | TPTD |
| kCantonese | jip6 |
| kCihaiT | 1152.205 |
| kCowles | 1367 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1504.180 |
| kDefinition | leaf, petal; page of book; period |
| kEACC | 21554F |
| kFanqie | 與涉 書涉 |
| kFenn | 110A |
| kFennIndex | 441.09 621.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4490.4 |
| kGB1 | 5022 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0633d |
| kHangul | 섭:0N 엽:0E |
| kHanYu | 53243.150 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yè(301) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53243.150:yè,shè |
| kHKGlyph | 3498 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1504.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53243.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1044.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5236 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B8AD |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4D55 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F9AE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6728 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6634 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-653B |
| kJapanese | ヨウ ショウ は |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | HA |
| kJapaneseOn | YOU SHOU |
| kJis0 | 4553 |
| kKangXi | 1044.030 |
| kKarlgren | 225 |
| kKorean | YEP SEP |
| kLau | 3500 3501 |
| kMandarin | yè |
| kMatthews | 7319 |
| kMeyerWempe | 901 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022301 MJ022301:E0101 MJ022303:E0102 MJ022302:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 31387' 31387':E0101 31387:E0103 |
| kNelson | 4001 |
| kPhonetic | 1590 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3903+140.3.9 V+20204+140.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.9 |
| kSBGY | 538.21 538.44 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "叶" U+53F6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 590.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yè粵jip6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5509 |
| kTang | *iɛp |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | diệp |
| kXerox | 244:322 |
| kXHC1983 | 1348.062,1349.021:yè |