U+8581 "薁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8581 "薁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that historically refers to a type of plant, specifically the wild grapevine or a similar berry-bearing vine, often associated with medicinal or botanical contexts in classical texts. It carries the meaning of "wild grape" or "vine fruit" and appears in ancient Chinese literature, including the Erya and Shennong Ben Cao Jing, where it is noted for its use in traditional herbal remedies. The character belongs to the Kangxi radical 140 (艸, grass) and is composed of 16 strokes, reflecting its deep roots in the written record of East Asian botanical terminology.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8581
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	薁
HTML Hex Encoding	薁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x96 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8581
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008581
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8581

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	EE4D
kCCCII	232655
kCNS1986	2-5E79
kCNS1992	2-5E79
kCangjie	THBK
kCantonese	juk1
kCihaiT	1171.401
kDaeJaweon	1523.330
kDefinition	vine
kFanqie	於六
kFourCornerCode	4443.0
kGB3	7485
kGSR	1045e
kHanYu	53303.100
kHanyuPinyin	53303.100:yù
kIRGDaeJaweon	1523.330
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53303.100
kIRGKangXi	1060.010
kIRG_GSource	G3-6A75
kIRG_HSource	HB2-EE4D
kIRG_JSource	J14-7679
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6FF5
kIRG_KSource	K2-5976
kIRG_TSource	T2-5E79
kJapanese	イク オウ にわうめ
kTGH	2013:7756
kJIS0213	2,86,89
kJapaneseKun	NIWAUME
kJapaneseOn	IKU AU OU
kJis1	5756
kKangXi	1060.010
kMandarin	ào yù
kMojiJoho	MJ022880 MJ022880:E0101 MJ022879:E0102 MJ022881:E0105
kMorohashi	32072:E0102
kPhonetic	992
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18548+140.3.13
kRSUnicode	140.13
kSBGY	458.14
kTaiwanTelegraph	5625
kTGHZ2013	005.220:ào
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	316:044
kXHC1983	1416.100:yù