U+861C "蘜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+861C "蘜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and historically rich Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of plant, specifically identified in classical texts as the chrysanthemum, though it is often distinguished from the more common modern character for chrysanthemum (菊 "ju"). This ideograph appears in ancient Chinese dictionaries and literary works, such as the "Erya" and "Shuowen Jiezi," where it is defined as a medicinal herb sometimes conflated with or used as a variant for certain grasses or flowering plants. Its structure combines the "grass" radical (艹) with the phonetic component "匊," underscoring its botanical nature. Due to its obscurity, the character is rarely used in contemporary writing, making it a subject of interest primarily for paleographers, historical linguists, and those studying classical Chinese flora and terminology.

General Properties

Code Point U+861C
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 蘜
HTML Hex Encoding 蘜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x98 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x861C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000861C
C/C++/Java Escape \u861c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes
Unified Ideograph Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive F5F6
kCCCII 23277A
kCNS1986 2-6C26
kCNS1992 2-6C26
kCangjie TTJD
kCantonese guk1
kCihaiT 1181.302
kDaeJaweon 1535.210
kFanqie 居六
kFourCornerCode 4452.7
kGB5 7468
kGSR 1017f
kHanYu 53330.120
kHanyuPinyin 53330.120:jú
kIRGDaeJaweon 1535.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53330.120
kIRGKangXi 1069.170
kIRG_GSource G5-6A64
kIRG_HSource HB2-F5F6
kIRG_JSource JMJ-023193
kIRG_KPSource KP1-7080
kIRG_KSource K2-5A66
kIRG_TSource T2-6C26
kJapanese キク コク
kKangXi 1069.170
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ023193
kMorohashi 32487
kPhonetic 680
kRSUnicode 140.17
kSBGY 454.48
kTotalStrokes 20
kUnihanCore2020 HMT