U+8452 "葒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8452 "葒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) used in traditional and literary contexts, primarily referring to the water pepper plant or certain species of knotweed from the genus *Polygonum*. It combines the "grass" radical (艸) with the phonetic component 紅 (red), alluding to the plant's reddish stems or flowers. This character is occasionally encountered in classical poetry, botanical texts, or historical writings, though it is rare in modern everyday usage. The Unicode character U+8452 "葒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese hanzi that denotes a type of water pepper, specifically the plant *Polygonum orientale* (or related species), characterized by its red or purplish stems and spikes of tiny flowers. Composed of the grass radical (艹) atop the phonetic element 紅 (red), the character visually and phonetically suggests a red-tinted aquatic or marshy plant. While it appears in classical literature, botanical works, and historical dictionaries, it is

General Properties

Code Point	U+8452
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	葒
HTML Hex Encoding	葒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x91 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8452
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008452
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8452

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	DFD2
kCCCII	23233C
kCNS1986	2-4677
kCNS1992	2-4677
kCangjie	TVFM
kCantonese	hung4
kCihaiT	1156.301
kCowles	1241
kDaeJaweon	1505.120
kDefinition	Polygonum orientale, prince's feather
kEACC	23233C
kFanqie	戶公
kFourCornerCode	4491.1
kGB1	6106
kHanYu	53259.070
kHanyuPinyin	53259.070:hóng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1505.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53259.070
kIRGKangXi	1044.180
kIRG_GSource	G1-5D26
kIRG_HSource	HB2-DFD2
kIRG_JSource	J14-764A
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6EB4
kIRG_KSource	K2-585A
kIRG_TSource	T2-4677
kJapanese	コウ コク グ おおけたで
kJIS0213	2,86,42
kJapaneseKun	OOTADE
kJapaneseOn	KOU GU
kJis1	5654
kKangXi	1044.180
kMandarin	hóng
kMeyerWempe	836a
kMojiJoho	MJ022318 MJ022318:E0101 MJ022319:E0102
kMorohashi	31402:E0102
kPhonetic	527
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18511+140.3.9
kRSUnicode	140.9
kSBGY	030.41
kSimplifiedVariant	"荭" U+836D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	590.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	hóng粵hung4
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	321:070