U+8449 "葉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 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
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