U+8648 "虈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
虈
U+8648 "虈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that belongs to the set of traditional logographs used in Classical Chinese texts. It is composed of the radical "艹" (grass) over the phonetic component "嚣," and historically referred to a specific type of medicinal herb, often identified as a kind of angelica or aromatic plant used in ancient herbal medicine. This character is considered obscure in modern usage and is primarily encountered in specialized lexicons, historical literature, or scholarly studies of Chinese botanical nomenclature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8648 |
| 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 | 虈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 虈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x99 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8648 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008648 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8648 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F947 |
| kCCCII | 232850 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-7136 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-7136 |
| kCangjie | TRRR |
| kCantonese | hiu1 |
| kCihaiT | 1182.105 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1538.360 |
| kFanqie | 許嬌 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4466.6 |
| kHanYu | 53338.210 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53338.210:xiāo |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1538.360 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53338.210 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1072.280 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4A77 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F947 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-023266 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5B26 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-7136 |
| kJapanese | キョウ |
| kJapaneseKun | YOROIGUSA |
| kJapaneseOn | KYOU |
| kKangXi | 1072.280 |
| kMandarin | xiāo |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023266 |
| kMorohashi | 32633 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.21 |
| kSBGY | 147.27 |
| kTotalStrokes | 24 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |