U+8466 "葦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
葦
U+8466 "葦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing a reed or rush, specifically the common reed plant in the genus Phragmites, which is often used in traditional weaving, thatching, and writing materials. In East Asian languages, it is pronounced as "wěi" in Mandarin Chinese and "ashi" in Japanese, and it appears in classical poetry and literature as a symbol of fragility, resilience, or autumn landscapes. The character is composed of the radical for grass or vegetation (艹) on top, combined with a phonetic component related to "wei" meaning to act or do, though its primary meaning remains tied to the aquatic plant.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8466 |
| 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 | 葦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 葦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x91 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8466 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008466 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8466 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B8AB |
| kCCCII | 21554D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6632 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6632 |
| kCangjie | TDMQ |
| kCantonese | wai5 |
| kCihaiT | 1154.603 |
| kCowles | 5011 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1507.020 |
| kDefinition | reed |
| kEACC | 21554D |
| kFanqie | 于鬼 |
| kFenn | 764E |
| kFennIndex | 598.12 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4450.6 |
| kGB1 | 4613 |
| kGSR | 0571n |
| kHangul | 위:0N |
| kHanYu | 53258.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | wěi(32) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53258.040:wěi |
| kHKGlyph | 3496 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1507.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53258.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1045.280 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4E2D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B8AB |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3031 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FDD1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6A58 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6632 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8F4C |
| kJapanese | イ あし |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | ASHI |
| kJapaneseOn | I |
| kJis0 | 1617 |
| kKangXi | 1045.280 |
| kKorean | WI |
| kMandarin | wěi |
| kMatthews | 7088 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3738 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022364 MJ022364:E0101 MJ022365:E0102 MJ022368:E0103 MJ022366:E0104 MJ022363:E0105 MJ022367:E0106 |
| kMorohashi | 31437:E0105 |
| kNelson | 3998 |
| kPhonetic | 1433 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1141+140.3.10 C+1141+178.10.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.9 |
| kSBGY | 255.28 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "苇" U+82C7 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 590.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | wěi粵wai5 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5517 |
| kTang | hiuə̌i |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 263:375 |
| kXHC1983 | 1197.021:wěi |