U+8885 "袅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8885 "袅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes the concept of "delicate," "slender," or "graceful," often used in literary contexts to describe things that are wafting or curling upward, such as smoke or willow branches. It is composed of the "clothes" radical (衣) combined with a phonetic component, and its traditional form is "裊." In modern usage, it appears in terms like "袅袅" (niǎo niǎo), which evokes imagery of something gently rising or swaying, such as the soft curl of smoke or the graceful movement of a figure.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8885
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	袅
HTML Hex Encoding	袅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xA2 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8885
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008885
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8885

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

kCCCII	292E69
kCangjie	PYSV
kCantonese	niu5
kDefinition	curling upwards; wavering gently
kEACC	513A47
kFourCornerCode	2773
kGB0	8433
kHanYu	53076.060
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53076.060
kIRGKangXi	1113.221
kIRG_GSource	G0-7441
kTGH	2013:4608
kKangXi	1113.221
kMainlandTelegraph	5934
kMandarin	niǎo
kRSUnicode	145.4
kSMSZD2003Index	628.09
kTGHZ2013	267.030:niǎo
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"裊" U+88CA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0833.030:niǎo