U+8472 "葲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8472 "葲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in classical and some modern contexts, generally referring to a type of medicinal herb or plant, often identified as the "Chinese artichoke" or related species in botanical nomenclature. It is composed of the radical for grass or herb (艹) and a phonetic component, and its usage appears in traditional pharmacopoeias and literary texts rather than in common everyday language. This character thus belongs to the set of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) ideographs that encode specialized or historical vocabulary, preserving knowledge from earlier eras of East Asian writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8472
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	葲
HTML Hex Encoding	葲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x91 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8472
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008472
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8472

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

kCCCII	253176
kCNS1986	E-442F
kCNS1992	3-442F
kCangjie	THAE
kCantonese	cyun4
kFanqie	疾緣
kHanYu	53251.030
kHanyuPinyin	53251.030:quán
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53251.030
kIRGKangXi	1046.170
kIRG_GSource	GE-4975
kIRG_HSource	H-974C
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-022390
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6EA6
kIRG_TSource	T3-442F
kJapanese	セン ゼン
kKangXi	1046.170
kMandarin	quán
kMojiJoho	MJ022390
kMorohashi	31455
kPhonetic	280*
kRSUnicode	140.9
kSBGY	140.18
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	H