U+845C "葜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

葜

U+845C "葜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is used in the context of traditional and simplified Chinese writing systems. Its primary meaning refers to the "smilax" plant, specifically a type of climbing shrub from the genus Smilax, which is often associated with medicinal properties in East Asian herbal traditions. This character is composed of the radical for grass or plant (艹) and a phonetic component, reflecting its botanical classification, and it is not commonly used in modern everyday language but appears in specialized texts such as botanical descriptions or classical Chinese medicine records.

General Properties

Code Point	U+845C
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	葜
HTML Hex Encoding	葜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x91 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x845C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000845C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u845c

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	232329
kCNS1986	E-4432
kCNS1992	3-4432
kCangjie	TQHK
kCantonese	kit3
kCihaiT	1156.305
kDefinition	various species of the genus Smilax
kEACC	232329
kFanqie	恪八
kFourCornerCode	4480
kGB0	6154
kGB1	6154
kHanYu	53243.030
kHanyuPinyin	53243.030:qiā
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53243.030
kIRGKangXi	1045.110
kIRG_GSource	G0-5D56
kIRG_HSource	H-9ED1
kIRG_JSource	J14-764D
kIRG_KSource	K2-5860
kIRG_TSource	T3-4432
kJapanese	カツケチ
kTGH	2013:7301
kJIS0213	2,86,45
kJapaneseKun	KUSA
kJapaneseOn	KATSU
kJis1	5659
kKangXi	1045.110
kMandarin	qiā
kMojiJoho	MJ022344 MJ022342:E0102 MJ022343:E0103 MJ022344:E0104
kMorohashi	31421:E0103
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18514+140.3.9 V+22341+140.3.9
kRSUnicode	140.9
kSMSZD2003Index	591.16
kSMSZD2003Readings	qiā粵kit3
kTGHZ2013	294.140:qiā
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	GH
kXerox	321:072
kXHC1983	0906.080:qiā