U+8588 "薈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
薈
U+8588 "薈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used across multiple East Asian languages, primarily in written Chinese and Japanese. It represents the meaning of "luxuriant" or "flourishing," often describing lush vegetation or a gathering of talented people, as in the word "薈萃" (huìcuì), which means a collection of outstanding individuals or things. The character is composed of the radical for grass (艹) and a phonetic component, and it appears in historical and literary texts, as well as in modern contexts such as names or formal writing. Its simplified counterpart is 荟 (U+835F).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8588 |
| 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 | 薈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 薈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x96 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8588 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008588 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8588 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EE50 |
| kCCCII | 232657 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5E7C |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5E7C |
| kCangjie | TOMA |
| kCantonese | wai3 |
| kCihaiT | 1169.401 |
| kCowles | 3134 4998 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1524.100 |
| kDefinition | luxuriant, flourishing, abundant |
| kEACC | 232657 |
| kFanqie | 烏外 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4460.6 |
| kGB1 | 6086 |
| kGSR | 0321n |
| kHanYu | 53304.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53304.010:huì |
| kIICore | BTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1524.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53304.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1060.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5C76 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EE50 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6927 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6FED |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-597A |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5E7C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-655C |
| kJapanese | ワイ カイ エ イ |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIGERU KUSAMURA OOU |
| kJapaneseOn | KAI WAI |
| kJis0 | 7307 |
| kKangXi | 1060.220 |
| kMandarin | huì |
| kMatthews | 2347 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3727a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022900 MJ022900:E0101 MJ022901:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 32093:E0102 |
| kNelson | 4058 |
| kPhonetic | 1466 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6446+140.3.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.13 |
| kSBGY | 382.29 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "荟" U+835F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 601.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | huì粵wai3,wui6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5634 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kVietnamese | cói |
| kXerox | 275:132 |
| kXHC1983 | 0506.031:huì |