U+8460 "葠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

葠

U+8460 "葠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character with a rich historical and botanical significance, typically read as "shēn" in modern Mandarin. It is a radical 140 plant (艹) character that primarily refers to a perennial herbaceous plant, specifically the ginseng or similar medicinal roots, often associated with traditional East Asian herbal medicine for its restorative properties. The character is composed of the grass radical atop a phonetic component suggesting immersion or depth, reflecting the plant's cultural reputation for growing deep roots and its value in remedies for vitality. While less common in everyday modern usage, it appears in classical texts, historical herbals, and specialized terminology related to Chinese medicine and botany.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8460
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	葠
HTML Hex Encoding	葠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x91 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8460
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008460
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8460

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	DFDE
kCCCII	232336
kCNS1986	2-4725
kCNS1992	2-4725
kCangjie	TOSE
kCantonese	sam1
kCihaiT	1156.501
kDaeJaweon	1506.120
kDefinition	ginseng
kEACC	232336
kFourCornerCode	4424.7
kHanYu	53251.040
kHanyuPinyin	53251.040:shēn,shān
kIRGDaeJaweon	1506.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53251.040
kIRGKangXi	1045.180
kIRG_GSource	GKX-1045.18
kIRG_HSource	HB2-DFDE
kIRG_JSource	J1-585C
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6E8F
kIRG_KSource	K2-5864
kIRG_TSource	T2-4725
kJapanese	シンセン
kJapaneseOn	SHIN SEN
kJis1	5660
kKangXi	1045.180
kMainlandTelegraph	9185
kMandarin	shēn
kMojiJoho	MJ022349 MJ022349:E0101 MJ022350:E0102
kMorohashi	31428:E0102
kPhonetic	61
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22342+140.3.9
kRSUnicode	140.9
kSMSZD2003Index	592.01
kTaiwanTelegraph	9128
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	306:130
kXHC1983	1018.013:shēn