U+831C "茜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

茜
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+831C "茜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "madder," a plant from which a red dye is historically derived, and it is also used as a component in names and poetic contexts to evoke the color crimson or a deep reddish hue. In modern usage, it appears in personal names, particularly for women, and in words like "茜色" (akane-iro) in Japanese, which refers to a vibrant sunset red. The character is composed of the radical for grass (艹) and the phonetic component "西," reflecting its botanical origin, and it carries cultural associations with natural beauty and vivid coloration across Chinese and Japanese written traditions.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+831C
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
茜
HTML Hex Encoding
茜
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x8C 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding
0x831C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000831C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u831c

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
D37D
kCCCII
2E7C2E
kCNS1986
2-3241
kCNS1992
2-3241
kCangjie
TMCW
kCantonese
sin6
kCihaiT
1138.501
kDaeJaweon
1486.240
kDefinition
madder, Rubia cordifolia; reeds
kEACC
2E7C2E
kFanqie
倉甸
kFourCornerCode
4460.1
kGB0
6071
kGB1
6071
kHangul
천:1N
kHanYu
53200.120
kHanyuPinyin
53200.120:qiàn,xī
kIICore
AGTJHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53200.120
kIRG_GSource
G0-5C67
kIRG_HSource
HB2-D37D
kIRG_JSource
J0-302B
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-6DA7
kIRG_KSource
K1-6F3B
kIRG_TSource
T2-3241
kJapanese
セン あかね
kJinmeiyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:4108
kJapaneseKun
AKANE
kJapaneseOn
SEN
kJis0
1611
kKangXi
1027.280
kKorean
CHEN
kMainlandTelegraph
5409
kMandarin
qiàn
kMatthews
929
kMeyerWempe
2811a
kMojiJoho
MJ021774 MJ021774:E0101 MJ021775:E0102
kMorohashi
30871:E0102
kNelson
3932
kPhonetic
1112
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1135+140.3.6 C+1135+146.6.3
kRSUnicode
140.6
kSBGY
406.34
kSemanticVariant
U+84A8<kSMSZD2003Index:T
kSMSZD2003Index
578.05
kSMSZD2003Readings
qiàn粵sin6 xī粵sai1
kTaiwanTelegraph
5409
kTGHZ2013
297.080:qiàn 391.110:xī
kTotalStrokes
9
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kXerox
275:121
kXHC1983
0915.100:qiàn 1228.030:xī