U+856D "蕭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蕭
U+856D "蕭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily refers to the artemisia plant, a type of aromatic mugwort, and is also a common surname in Chinese-speaking communities. In historical texts, it carries connotations of desolation or bleakness, as seen in compound words like "蕭條" (xiaotiao), meaning depression or economic downturn, and it appears in classical poetry to evoke a sense of autumnal loneliness. The character is composed of the grass radical (艹) and a phonetic component, reflecting its botanical origins while being used in personal names, place names, and literary contexts across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+856D |
| 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 | 蕭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蕭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x95 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x856D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000856D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u856d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BFBD |
| kCCCII | 215622 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7227 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7227 |
| kCangjie | TLX |
| kCantonese | siu1 |
| kCihaiT | 1166.201 |
| kCowles | 3672 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1522.150 |
| kDefinition | common artemisia; sighing of wind; mournful; dejected |
| kEACC | 215622 |
| kFanqie | 蘇彫 |
| kFenn | 164aI |
| kFennIndex | 171.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4422.7 |
| kGB1 | 4784 |
| kGSR | 1028i |
| kHangul | 소:0N |
| kHanYu | 53308.120 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53308.120:xiāo |
| kHKGlyph | 3543 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1522.150 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53308.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1059.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4F74 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BFBD |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-692B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E3B8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-614B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7227 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8F51 |
| kJapanese | ショウ よもぎ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | YOMOGI |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 7311 |
| kKangXi | 1059.100 |
| kKorean | SO |
| kLau | 2854 |
| kMandarin | xiāo |
| kMatthews | 2620 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2827 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022847 MJ022847:E0101 MJ022848:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 32012:E0102 |
| kNelson | 4068 |
| kPhonetic | 1219 1261 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6450+140.3.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.12 |
| kSBGY | 143.44 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "萧" U+8427 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 602.07 602.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xiāo粵siu1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5618 |
| kTang | *seu |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 256:055 |
| kXHC1983 | 1265.031:xiāo |