U+8609 "蘉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蘉
U+8609 "蘉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character composed of the grass radical and a complex phonetic component, primarily found in classical or historical texts rather than modern usage. It is thought to be a variant or archaic form associated with meanings related to plants or growth, though its exact definition is obscure and often listed only in specialized dictionaries of ancient scripts. This character exemplifies the depth of the CJK unified ideographs block, which encodes characters from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages, preserving obscure or seldom used glyphs alongside common ones.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8609 |
| 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 | 蘉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蘉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x98 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8609 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008609 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8609 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F4C0 |
| kCCCII | 23276A |
| kCNS1986 | 2-696C |
| kCNS1992 | 2-696C |
| kCangjie | TWLE |
| kCantonese | mong4 |
| kCihaiT | 1179.307 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1534.080 |
| kFanqie | 莫郎 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4424.2 |
| kGB3 | 7549 |
| kGSR | 0902f |
| kHanYu | 10233.050 53326.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10233.050:méng 53326.040:méng,máng |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1534.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53326.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1068.130 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6B51 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F4C0 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-023154 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7067 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5A5F |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-696C |
| kJapanese | ボウ モウ |
| kKangXi | 1068.130 |
| kMandarin | méng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023154 |
| kMorohashi | 32433 |
| kPhonetic | 934 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.16 |
| kSBGY | 183.05 |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |