U+8462 "葢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
葢
U+8462 "葢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning "cover," "lid," or "to cover," and is a variant form of the more common character 蓋 (gài). It is composed of the radical 艹 (grass) on top and the phonetic component 盍 below, and in classical or literary contexts, it can also function as a grammatical particle indicating rhetorical questioning or inferential reasoning. This character is primarily used in Traditional Chinese, Japanese (where it is pronounced "futa" or "ka" in certain compounds), and occasionally in historical or calligraphic texts, though it is less frequent in modern simplified Chinese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8462 |
| 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 | 葢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 葢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x91 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8462 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008462 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8462 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 335561 |
| kCNS1986 | E-4438 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-4438 |
| kCangjie | TKIT |
| kCantonese | koi3 |
| kCihaiT | 1156.502 |
| kCowles | 1942 1996 |
| kDefinition | cover, hide, protect |
| kEACC | 335561 |
| kFennIndex | 236.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4410.7 |
| kGB5 | 7276 |
| kGSR | 0642r |
| kHanYu | 42564.010 53245.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53245.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1045.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-686C |
| kIRG_HSource | H-FECD |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6864 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5865 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-4438 |
| kJapanese | カイ ガイ おおう |
| kJapaneseKun | KASA FUTA OOU |
| kJapaneseOn | GAI KOU KAI |
| kJis0 | 7268 |
| kKangXi | 1045.220 |
| kLau | 948 1707 |
| kMandarin | gài |
| kMeyerWempe | 1211 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022353 MJ022353:E0101 MJ022355:E0102 MJ022354:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 31432:E0103 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6413+140.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.9 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+76D6<kFenn U+84CB<kLau,kMeyerWempe |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4146 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJ |
| kXerox | 322:160 |