U+8490 "蒐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蒐
U+8490 "蒐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to collect" or "to gather," often used in the context of collecting medicinal herbs or searching for rare items. In classical texts, it can also refer to a type of plant, specifically the "sorghum" or "Chinese sorrel," and historically carried a connotation of autumn hunting in ancient Chinese ritual practices, where it denoted a seasonal hunt to cull or select animals. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block, and its usage extends to literary works and formal names, though it is less common in modern everyday language, where simpler characters like "搜" (sōu) for "search" are frequently preferred.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8490 |
| 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 | 蒐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蒐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x92 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8490 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008490 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8490 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BB60 |
| kCCCII | 215566 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6A68 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6A68 |
| kCangjie | THI |
| kCantonese | sau1 |
| kCihaiT | 1156.507 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1509.080 |
| kDefinition | collect, gather, assemble; seek; spring hunt; assemble for war |
| kEACC | 215566 |
| kFanqie | 所鳩 |
| kFenn | 808I |
| kFennIndex | 473.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4421.3 |
| kGSR | 1098a |
| kHangul | 수:0N |
| kHanYu | 53251.070 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53251.070:sōu,huì |
| kHKGlyph | 3520 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1509.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53251.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1047.710 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-497E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BB60 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3D2F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E4A4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-623D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6A68 |
| kJapanese | シュウ シュ カイ エ あかね あつめる かり |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:7313 |
| kJapaneseKun | AKANE ATSUMERU KARI |
| kJapaneseOn | SHUU |
| kJis0 | 2915 |
| kKangXi | 1047.710 |
| kKarlgren | 460 |
| kKorean | SWU |
| kMandarin | sōu |
| kMatthews | 5469 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2559c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022437 MJ022437:E0101 MJ022438:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31539:E0102 |
| kNelson | 4022 |
| kPhonetic | 711 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2361+140.3.10 C+2361+194.10.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.10 |
| kSBGY | 208.35 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 592.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | sōu粵sau1,sau2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5533 |
| kTang | shriou |
| kTGHZ2013 | 348.170:sōu |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 267:321 |
| kXHC1983 | 1093.061:sōu |