U+8596 "薖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
薖
U+8596 "薖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji character that falls under the category of a plant or grass radical. It is primarily used as a component in classical texts and personal names, often associated with meanings related to a type of edible herb or wild vegetable, specifically the plant known as "kuai" in Chinese. The character appears in old dictionaries and literary works, but it is not commonly used in modern everyday language, making it a more obscure glyph primarily of interest to scholars of historical Chinese writing and calligraphy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8596 |
| 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 | 薖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 薖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x96 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8596 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008596 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8596 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EE48 |
| kCCCII | 232647 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5E74 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5E74 |
| kCangjie | TYBB |
| kCantonese | gwo1 |
| kCihaiT | 1170.601 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1525.110 |
| kDefinition | empty, hungry-looking |
| kFanqie | 苦禾 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4430.2 |
| kGB3 | 7272 |
| kGSR | 0018h |
| kHanYu | 53280.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53280.050:kē |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1525.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53280.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1061.150 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6868 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EE48 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-022931 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6FBE |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5A23 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5E74 |
| kJapanese | カ |
| kKangXi | 1061.150 |
| kMandarin | kē |
| kMatthews | 3399 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1409c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022931 MJ022931:E0100 MJ022930:E0101 |
| kMorohashi | 32116 32116:E0100 |
| kPhonetic | 745 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.13 |
| kSBGY | 164.01 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𰰾" U+30C3E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5639 |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 306:162 |