U+8465 "葥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8465 "葥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that traditionally refers to a type of plant, specifically the climbing herb known as "葥" or "arrowroot" in some botanical contexts, though its precise modern usage can be obscure. In classical Chinese texts, it is sometimes associated with the plant "Pueraria lobata" (kudzu) or a similar vine, and it appears in ancient lexicons such as the Shuowen Jiezi, where it is defined as a creeping or thorny shrub. Today, this character is rarely used common modern writing and is more often encountered in historical or specialized linguistic studies. Its Unicode encoding ensures its digital preservation for scholarly and typographic purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+8465
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 葥
HTML Hex Encoding 葥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x91 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8465
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008465
C/C++/Java Escape \u8465

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 DFB0
kCCCII 232252
kCNS1986 2-4655
kCNS1992 2-4655
kCangjie TTBN
kCantonese zin3
kCihaiT 1154.601
kDaeJaweon 1507.010
kFanqie 子賤
kFourCornerCode 4422.1
kGB3 7403
kHanYu 53254.150
kHanyuPinyin 53254.150:jiàn,qián
kIRGDaeJaweon 1507.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53254.150
kIRGKangXi 1045.270
kIRG_GSource G3-6A23
kIRG_HSource HB2-DFB0
kIRG_JSource J14-764F
kIRG_KPSource KP1-6E9D
kIRG_KSource K2-5867
kIRG_TSource T2-4655
kJapanese セン ゼン
kJIS0213 2,86,47
kJapaneseKun KIICHIGU
kJapaneseOn SEN ZEN
kJis1 5662
kKangXi 1045.270
kMandarin jiàn
kMojiJoho MJ022361 MJ022361:E0101 MJ022362:E0102
kMorohashi 31436:E0102
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+18516+140.3.9
kRSUnicode 140.9
kSBGY 410.15
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 HMT