U+8572 "蕲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8572 "蕲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used as a surname and also found in classical literary contexts, such as the name of an ancient state or region in present-day Hubei province. In modern Chinese, it is most commonly associated with the term "蕲春," a county in Hubei known for its medicinal herbs and traditional Chinese medicine heritage, particularly the cultivation of the "蕲艾" or mugwort plant. The character itself is composed of the "grass" radical indicating a botanical origin, combined with a phonetic component, reflecting its historical ties to plant names and geographic locations.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8572
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	蕲
HTML Hex Encoding	蕲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x95 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8572
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008572
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8572

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

kCCCII	292768
kCangjie	TCJL
kCantonese	kei4
kDefinition	variety of Artemisia
kEACC	292768
kFourCornerCode	4452
kGB0	6213
kHanYu	53295.080
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53295.080
kIRGKangXi	1059.291
kIRG_GSource	G0-5E2D
kTGH	2013:5881
kKangXi	1059.291
kMainlandTelegraph	5682
kMandarin	qí
kRSUnicode	140.12
kSMSZD2003Index	600.03
kTGHZ2013	292.140:qí
kTotalStrokes	15
kTraditionalVariant	"蘄" U+8604 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0898.060:qí