U+8474 "葴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8474 "葴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of plant, specifically the “sour jujube” or “sour date,” and is associated with meanings related to bitterness or astringent taste, as seen in ancient texts where it denotes a medicinal herb or a plant with a sharp flavor. This character also appears in classical literature, such as in the "Shijing" (Book of Odes), where it is used to describe overgrown vegetation or a sense of sorrow, linking its botanical reference to metaphorical expressions of hardship. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs, it carries historical and literary significance in East Asian languages, though it is rarely used in modern everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8474
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	葴
HTML Hex Encoding	葴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x91 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8474
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008474
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8474

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	DFBA
kCCCII	232268
kCNS1986	2-465F
kCNS1992	2-465F
kCangjie	TIHR
kCantonese	zam1
kCihaiT	1155.402
kDaeJaweon	1507.170
kFanqie	職深
kFourCornerCode	4425.3
kGB3	7374
kHanYu	53245.080
kHanyuPinyin	53245.080:zhēn,qián
kIRGDaeJaweon	1507.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53245.080
kIRGKangXi	1046.190
kIRG_GSource	G3-696A
kIRG_HSource	HB2-DFBA
kIRG_JSource	J1-5863
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6EAA
kIRG_KSource	K2-586B
kIRG_TSource	T2-465F
kJapanese	シン カン ゲン ケン
kTGH	2013:7306
kJapaneseKun	YAMAAI
kJapaneseOn	SHIN KAN GEN KEN
kJis1	5667
kKangXi	1046.190
kMandarin	zhēn
kMojiJoho	MJ022393 MJ022393:E0101 MJ022394:E0102
kMorohashi	31457:E0102
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22346+140.3.9
kRSUnicode	140.9
kSBGY	217.34
kTGHZ2013	471.120:zhēn
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT