U+8944 "襄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
襄
U+8944 "襄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character with a rich history, traditionally pronounced as "xiāng" in Mandarin. It originally depicted a person wearing a garment or engaging in an action of assisting or raising, and its core meanings include "to assist," "to help," "to accomplish," or "to rise high." Historically, it is notably used in the name of Xiangyang, a city in Hubei province, and appears in classical texts such as the Shiji, often conveying the sense of aiding or completing a task. The character's structure combines a top component related to clothing with an ancient phonetic and semantic element, reflecting its evolution from oracle bone script to modern standard form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8944 |
| 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 | 襄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 襄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA5 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8944 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008944 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8944 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C1B8 |
| kCCCII | 21577A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7543 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7543 |
| kCangjie | YRRV |
| kCantonese | soeng1 |
| kCihaiT | 1219.601 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1591.200 |
| kDefinition | aid, help, assist; undress |
| kEACC | 21577A |
| kFanqie | 息良 |
| kFenn | 369G |
| kFennIndex | 168.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0073.2 |
| kGB0 | 4769 |
| kGB1 | 4769 |
| kGSR | 0730a |
| kHangul | 양:0N |
| kHanYu | 53109.120 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53109.120:xiāng |
| kHKGlyph | 3723 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1591.200 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53109.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1123.310 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4F65 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C1B8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6A77 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F8A4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6551 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7543 |
| kJapanese | ジョウ ショウ ソウ ニョウ はらう |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:6286 |
| kJapaneseKun | NOBORU AGERU TAKAI |
| kJapaneseOn | JOU SHOU |
| kJis0 | 7487 |
| kKangXi | 1123.310 |
| kKorean | YANG |
| kLau | 2732 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5980 |
| kMandarin | xiāng |
| kMatthews | 2571 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2577b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024128 MJ024128:E0101 MJ059302:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 34556 34556:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 988 1160 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6620+145.6.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 145.11 |
| kSBGY | 175.13 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+342E |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 633.17 16.25 121.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xiāng粵soeng1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5980 |
| kTang | *siɑng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 401.010:xiāng |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 256:244 |
| kXHC1983 | 1253.010:xiāng |