U+8648 "虈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 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