U+846F "葯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
葯
U+846F "葯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the grass radical atop a phonetic component, and it traditionally refers to a type of medicinal herb or plant, often specifically denoting "medicine" or "drug" in the context of traditional Chinese medicine, where it appears in classical texts as a variant or older form of the more common character 藥 (yào). In modern usage, it is less frequently employed as a standalone term but remains recognizable in historical literature and in the compound term 山葯 (shān yào), meaning Chinese yam, a starchy tuber used in both culinary and medicinal applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+846F |
| 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 | 葯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 葯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x91 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x846F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000846F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u846f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | DFD3 |
| kCCCII | 23233E |
| kCNS1986 | 2-4678 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-4678 |
| kCangjie | TVFI |
| kCantonese | joek6 |
| kCihaiT | 1155.301 |
| kCowles | 5180 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1507.130 |
| kDefinition | orris root; leaf of the iris; medicine |
| kEACC | 2D5635 |
| kFanqie | 於角 於略 |
| kFennIndex | 619.03 654.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4492.7 |
| kGB1 | 8887 |
| kGSR | 1120n |
| kHangul | 약:0N |
| kHanYu | 53259.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53259.090:yào |
| kIICore | ATKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1507.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53259.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1046.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7877 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-DFD3 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6860 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F7EC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6535 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-4678 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6541 |
| kJapanese | ヤク アク テキ チャク |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | YOROIGUSA MATOU TSUTSUMU |
| kJapaneseOn | YAKU AKU TEKI |
| kJis0 | 7264 |
| kKangXi | 1046.120 |
| kKarlgren | 1349 |
| kKorean | YAK AK |
| kLau | 3388 |
| kMandarin | yào |
| kMatthews | 7501 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3875 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022384 MJ022384:E0101 MJ022385:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31451:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 972 1523 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6409+140.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.9 |
| kSBGY | 467.02 502.30 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+85E5<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "药" U+836F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5522 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | dược |
| kXerox | 322:137 |