U+8557 "蕗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蕗
U+8557 "蕗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of edible wild plant often translated as "butterbur" or "sweet coltsfoot," and it appears in classical texts and modern usage primarily as a component of botanical names or traditional herbal remedies. Its glyph consists of the radical for grass (艹) combined with a phonetic component, and it is used in both Chinese and Japanese contexts, where it can refer to species like Petasites japonicus. In modern computing and typography, this character enables accurate representation of regional flora and historical linguistic works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8557 |
| 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 | 蕗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蕗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x95 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8557 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008557 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8557 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EE46 |
| kCCCII | 232645 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5E72 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5E72 |
| kCangjie | TRMR |
| kCantonese | lou6 |
| kCihaiT | 1168.405 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1520.300 |
| kDefinition | genus Leucaena; butterbur; Petasites japonicus |
| kEACC | 232645 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4416.4 |
| kGB3 | 7513 |
| kHangul | 로:N |
| kHanYu | 53301.140 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53301.140:lù |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1520.300 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53301.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1058.020 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6B2D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EE46 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4979 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6F84 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5963 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5E72 |
| kJapanese | ロ ふき |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:7842 |
| kJapaneseKun | FUKI |
| kJapaneseOn | RO |
| kJis0 | 4189 |
| kKangXi | 1058.020 |
| kMandarin | lù |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022800 MJ022800:E0101 MJ022799:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31964:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 826* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3563+140.3.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 600.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | lù粵lou6 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 234.160:lù |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |