U+8455 "葕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8455 "葕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the radical for grass or plant (艹) on top and a phonetic component that suggests the sound "xing" or "yan" in historical readings. This character is primarily used in classical Chinese texts and refers to a type of aquatic plant, specifically a kind of waterweed or duckweed, often associated with descriptions in ancient botanical or poetic works. It is an uncommon character in modern standard Chinese, appearing infrequently in literature or daily usage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8455
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	葕
HTML Hex Encoding	葕
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x91 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8455
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008455
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8455

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

kCCCII	232344
kCNS1986	E-443F
kCNS1992	3-443F
kCangjie	THON
kCantonese	jin4
kDaeJaweon	1505.160
kGB5	7294
kHanYu	53252.030
kHanyuPinyin	53252.030:yàn
kIRGDaeJaweon	1505.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53252.030
kIRGKangXi	1044.220
kIRG_GSource	G5-687E
kIRG_HSource	H-9245
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-022322
kIRG_KSource	K2-585C
kIRG_TSource	T3-443F
kJapanese	エン
kKangXi	1044.220
kMandarin	yàn
kMojiJoho	MJ022322
kMorohashi	31406
kPhonetic	1572*
kRSUnicode	140.9
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	H