U+8489 "蒉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蒉
U+8489 "蒉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally pronounced "kuì" in Mandarin, primarily used to denote a type of ancient basket or container woven from rushes or bamboo, often employed for holding earth or grain in classical contexts. It appears in historical texts such as the Analects of Confucius, where it symbolizes simplicity and humble living, and its modern usage is largely confined to literary or scholarly references rather than everyday language. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, this character is also recognized in some extended character sets for East Asian typography. The radical of "蒉" is the grass radical (艹), and it is composed of 14 total strokes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8489 |
| 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 | 蒉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蒉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x92 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8489 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008489 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8489 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 292564 |
| kCangjie | TLMO |
| kCantonese | gwai6 |
| kDefinition | edible amaranth; straw basket |
| kEACC | 292564 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4480 |
| kGB0 | 6162 |
| kHanYu | 53249.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53249.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1047.671 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5D5E |
| kTGH | 2013:7310 |
| kKangXi | 1047.671 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5614 |
| kMandarin | kuì |
| kPhonetic | 716* |
| kRSUnicode | 140.9 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 592.08 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 203.190:kuì |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "蕢" U+8562 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0663.130:kuì |