U+846B "葫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
葫
U+846B "葫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly known as the kanji for "bottle gourd" or "calabash," a type of vine fruit often dried and used as a container. In traditional Chinese culture, it symbolizes good fortune and is associated with the Eight Immortals, particularly Li Tieguai, who carried a gourd as a magical vessel. The character is composed of the radical for "grass" (艹) representing plants, and a phonetic component (胡) that provides the pronunciation "hu" in Mandarin. It appears in words like "葫芦" (hulu), meaning gourd or calabash, and is used in both Chinese and Japanese writing systems within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+846B |
| 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 | 葫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 葫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x91 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x846B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000846B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u846b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B8AC |
| kCCCII | 215551 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6633 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6633 |
| kCangjie | TJRB |
| kCantonese | wu4 |
| kCihaiT | 1155.102 |
| kCowles | 3125 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1507.060 |
| kDefinition | bottle-gourd |
| kEACC | 215551 |
| kFanqie | 戶吳 荒烏 |
| kFenn | 705F |
| kFennIndex | 198.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4462.7 |
| kGB0 | 2689 |
| kGB1 | 2689 |
| kGSR | 0049k' |
| kHangul | 호:0N |
| kHanYu | 53244.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | hú(28) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53244.010:hú |
| kHKGlyph | 3497 |
| kIICore | AGTHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1507.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53244.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1045.340 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3A79 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B8AC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6859 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F4B4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7B59 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6633 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-653F |
| kJapanese | コ ゴ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2545 |
| kJapaneseKun | NINNIKU FUKUBE HYOUTAN |
| kJapaneseOn | KO |
| kJis0 | 7257 |
| kKangXi | 1045.340 |
| kKarlgren | 91 |
| kKorean | HO |
| kLau | 3275 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5519 |
| kMandarin | hú |
| kMatthews | 2173 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2168 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022376 MJ022376:E0101 MJ022377:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31443:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 1460 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6402+140.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.9 |
| kSBGY | 081.27 083.18 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 590.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | hú粵wu4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5519 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 140.180:hú |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | hồ |
| kXerox | 257:156 |
| kXHC1983 | 0473.050:hú |