U+8586 "薆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8586 "薆" CJK Unified Ideograph is a Chinese character (hanzi) that represents a type of plant or herb, specifically identified as a kind of mugwort or artemisia, often used in traditional contexts. It conveys meanings related to covering, shading, or obscuring, and can also imply a sense of hidden or concealed growth, such as dense vegetation. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, and its usage appears in classical Chinese texts where it describes lush, overgrown foliage or the act of sheltering. While not common in modern everyday writing, it remains relevant in historical and literary studies of East Asian scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+8586
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 薆
HTML Hex Encoding 薆
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x96 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8586
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008586
C/C++/Java Escape \u8586

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 EE49
kCCCII 23264E
kCNS1986 2-5E75
kCNS1992 2-5E75
kCangjie TBBE
kCantonese oi3
kCihaiT 1170.202
kDaeJaweon 1524.050
kDefinition to cover; to hide; to conceal
kEACC 23264E
kFanqie 烏代
kFourCornerCode 4424.7
kGB3 7431
kGSR 0508c
kHangul 애:1N
kHanYu 53304.040
kHanyuPinyin 53304.040:ài
kIRGDaeJaweon 1524.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53304.040
kIRGKangXi 1060.160
kIRG_GSource G3-6A3F
kIRG_HSource HB2-EE49
kIRG_JSource J14-767A
kIRG_KPSource KP1-6FF7
kIRG_KSource K1-6664
kIRG_TSource T2-5E75
kIRG_VSource V1-655B
kJapanese アイ キ ケ
kKoreanName 2015
kJIS0213 2,86,90
kJapaneseKun KAKUSU
kJapaneseOn AI KI KE
kJis1 5758
kKangXi 1060.160
kKorean AY
kMandarin ài
kMojiJoho MJ022893 MJ022893:E0101 MJ022894:E0102
kMorohashi 32087:E0102
kPhonetic 994
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+18549+140.3.13
kRSUnicode 140.13
kSBGY 390.42
kSimplifiedVariant "𫉁" U+2B241 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kVietnamese ái
kXerox 306:161
kXHC1983 0005.031:ài