U+8604 "蘄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蘄
U+8604 "蘄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that carries the meanings of "to request" or "to entreat," and it is also used as a surname and as a place name in historical Chinese contexts. Structurally, it is a complex character composed of components related to plants and the radical for "axe" or "halberd," reflecting its ancient usage in terms related to herbal medicine or geographical regions. Notably, "蘄" is also closely associated with the term "蕲春," a county in Hubei province, China, which is historically famous for its production of mugwort (Artemisia argyi) used in traditional Chinese medicine.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8604 |
| 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 | 蘄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蘄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x98 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8604 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008604 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8604 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F4BF |
| kCCCII | 232768 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-696B |
| kCNS1992 | 2-696B |
| kCangjie | TRJL |
| kCantonese | kei4 |
| kCihaiT | 1177.205 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1533.240 |
| kDefinition | variety of Artemisia |
| kEACC | 232768 |
| kFanqie | 渠之 居依 巨斤 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4452.1 |
| kGB1 | 6213 |
| kGSR | 0443t |
| kHangul | 기:1N |
| kHanYu | 53326.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53326.020:qí,jī,qín |
| kIICore | CT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1533.240 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53326.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1067.270 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5E2D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F4BF |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7B46 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7055 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5B7C |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-696B |
| kJapanese | キ キン ギ ケ ゴン くつわ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,91,38 |
| kJapaneseOn | KI GI KE KIN GON |
| kJis1 | 5803 |
| kKangXi | 1067.270 |
| kKorean | KI |
| kMandarin | qí |
| kMatthews | 541 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1123o |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023143 MJ023143:E0101 MJ023144:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 32418:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 571 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17100+140.3.16 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.16 |
| kSBGY | 060.24 065.24 112.32 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "蕲" U+8572 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 605.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qí粵kei4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5682 |
| kTang | ghiə |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 272:120 |
| kXHC1983 | 0898.061:qí |