U+8594 "薔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
薔
U+8594 "薔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a noun in classical and modern contexts, most commonly denoting the rose flower, particularly species from the genus Rosa such as Rosa multiflora, and it is often found in compounds like "薔薇" (qiángwēi, meaning "rose"). Its radical is the grass radical (艹, representing plants), and its total stroke count is 16. Beyond its botanical meaning, the character can also appear in classical literary references as a symbol of beauty or fragrance and is historically used in poetic imagery and personal names, with variant readings in Chinese and Japanese where it retains similar floral associations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8594 |
| 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 | 薔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 薔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x96 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8594 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008594 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8594 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C1A5 |
| kCCCII | 215626 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-752F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-752F |
| kCangjie | TGOW |
| kCantonese | coeng4 |
| kCihaiT | 1170.301 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1525.090 |
| kDefinition | rose |
| kEACC | 215626 |
| kFanqie | 在良 所力 |
| kFenn | 770K |
| kFennIndex | 47.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4460.1 |
| kGB1 | 3930 |
| kHangul | 장:0N |
| kHanYu | 53300.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53300.030:sè,qiáng |
| kHKGlyph | 3546 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1525.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53300.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1061.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-473E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C1A5 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-692C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E6FA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6D79 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-752F |
| kJapanese | ソウ ショク ショウ シキ ゾウ みずたで |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | MIZUTADE |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOKU SHOU SOU |
| kJis0 | 7312 |
| kKangXi | 1061.120 |
| kKorean | CANG SAYK |
| kMandarin | qiáng |
| kMatthews | 677 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3338g |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022926 MJ022926:E0101 MJ022927:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 32113:E0102 |
| kNelson | 4071 |
| kPhonetic | 122 1191 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6451+140.3.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.13 |
| kSBGY | 176.40 526.36 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "蔷" U+8537 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 601.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qiáng粵coeng4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5638 |
| kTang | dzhiɑng |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 261:332 |
| kXHC1983 | 0917.111:qiáng |