U+864B "虋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

虋

U+864B "虋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an exceptionally rare and obscure Chinese character that represents a type of bean plant, specifically referring to the "red bean" or "azuki bean" in classical texts, though it is often associated with a more general meaning of a kind of grain or herb in ancient dictionaries. This character is composed of the radical for "grass" or "plant" (艹) over a complex phonetic component, and it appears primarily in historical or literary contexts, such as in the Erya, an early Chinese dictionary, where it is defined as a type of legume. Due to its extreme rarity and lack of modern usage, "虋" is sometimes noted as one of the most complex and rarely used characters in the CJK Unihan repertoire, with very few digital fonts including it and virtually no contemporary application outside of specialized calligraphy or paleographic study.

General Properties

Code Point	U+864B
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	虋
HTML Hex Encoding	虋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x99 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x864B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000864B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u864b

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	F9C7
kCCCII	232857
kCNS1986	2-7235
kCNS1992	2-7235
kCangjie	THBH
kCantonese	mun4
kCihaiT	1182.109
kDaeJaweon	1539.140
kDefinition	asparagus a variety of red-stalked millet
kFanqie	莫奔
kFourCornerCode	4422.7
kGB3	7566
kHanYu	53340.090
kHanyuPinyin	53340.090:mén
kIRGDaeJaweon	1539.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53340.090
kIRGKangXi	1072.560
kIRG_GSource	G3-6B62
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F9C7
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-023269
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-70C6
kIRG_KSource	K2-5B27
kIRG_TSource	T2-7235
kJapanese	ボンモンビンミン
kKangXi	1072.560
kMandarin	mén
kMatthews	4423
kMojiJoho	MJ023269 MJ023269:E0100 MJ058575:E0101
kMorohashi	32664 32664:E0100
kPhonetic	475A 881A
kRSUnicode	140.25
kSBGY	117.23
kTotalStrokes	29
kUnihanCore2020	HMT