U+8545 "蕅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8545 "蕅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (kanji/hanja) that primarily refers to the lotus root, specifically the edible rhizome of the lotus plant (Nelumbo nucifera), which is a common ingredient in East Asian cuisine. The character is composed of the grass radical (艹) indicating its botanical nature, combined with phonetic and semantic components that together convey the idea of a water plant with segmented roots. Historically, it appears in classical Chinese texts and continues to be used in modern contexts, particularly in culinary descriptions and poetic references to lotus ponds. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, which codifies shared characters across these languages, though its usage frequency varies by region.

General Properties

Code Point U+8545
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 蕅
HTML Hex Encoding 蕅
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x95 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8545
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008545
C/C++/Java Escape \u8545

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 EAF9
kCCCII 232537
kCNS1986 2-5965
kCNS1992 2-5965
kCangjie TEWB
kCantonese ngau5
kCihaiT 1168.506
kDaeJaweon 1520.020
kFanqie 五口
kFourCornerCode 5532.7
kGB5 7405
kHanYu 53296.020
kIRGDaeJaweon 1520.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53296.020
kIRGKangXi 1057.020
kIRG_GSource G5-6A25
kIRG_HSource HB2-EAF9
kIRG_JSource JMJ-022763
kIRG_KPSource KP1-6FA9
kIRG_KSource K2-595D
kIRG_TSource T2-5965
kJapanese ゴウ グ
kKangXi 1057.020
kMandarin ǒu
kMojiJoho MJ022763
kMorohashi 31921
kPhonetic 965
kRSUnicode 140.12
kSBGY 326.30
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kXHC1983 0846.011:ǒu