U+8475 "葵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
葵
U+8475 "葵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character commonly known as "sunflower" or "hollyhock" and carries the primary meaning of "mallow" in East Asian languages. It is composed of the radical for grass or plant atop the phonetic component, and in Chinese culture, it is most famously associated with the sunflower (向日葵 xiàngrìkuí) due to its symbolic connection to loyalty, warmth, and the sun. The character also appears in classical poetry and everyday vocabulary, such as in the Japanese name for the plant as well as in compound words for certain types of greens.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8475 |
| 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 | 葵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 葵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x91 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8475 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008475 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8475 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B8AA |
| kCCCII | 21554C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6631 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6631 |
| kCangjie | TNOK |
| kCantonese | kwai4 |
| kCihaiT | 1155.403 |
| kCowles | 2128 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1507.180 |
| kDefinition | sunflower; measure |
| kEACC | 21554C |
| kFanqie | 渠隹 |
| kFenn | 464G |
| kFennIndex | 274.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4443.0 |
| kGB0 | 3191 |
| kGB1 | 3191 |
| kGSR | 0605g |
| kHangul | 규:0N |
| kHanYu | 53258.140 |
| kHanyuPinlu | kuí(16) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53258.140:kuí |
| kHKGlyph | 3495 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1507.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53258.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1046.200 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3F7B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B8AA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-302A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D1D9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-502D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6631 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6542 |
| kJapanese | キ ギ あおい |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2561 |
| kJapaneseKun | AOI |
| kJapaneseOn | KI GI |
| kJis0 | 1610 |
| kKangXi | 1046.200 |
| kKarlgren | 459 |
| kKorean | KYU |
| kLau | 1733 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5525 |
| kMandarin | kuí |
| kMatthews | 3661 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1384 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022395 MJ022395:E0101 MJ022396:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31458:E0102 |
| kNelson | 3990 |
| kPhonetic | 714 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1134+140.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.9 |
| kSBGY | 055.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 591.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kuí粵kwai4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5525 |
| kTang | ghui |
| kTGHZ2013 | 203.040:kuí |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | quỳ |
| kXerox | 260:115 |
| kXHC1983 | 0662.120:kuí |