U+834A "荊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+834A "荊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally classified as a thorny plant, often referring to the chaste tree or certain types of brambles, and it appears in classical texts such as historical records and poetry. In modern usage across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, it can also connote punishment or hardship, as seen in the compound word "荊棘" meaning thorns or difficulties, and it is notably used in the name of the ancient region Jingzhou. The character is composed of the grass radical and a phonetic component, reflecting its botanical origin while carrying cultural weight in East Asian literature and iconography, such as in the story of the "Vinegar Tasters" or depictions of penitential rods.
General Properties
Code Point
U+834A
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
荊
HTML Hex Encoding
荊
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x8D 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x834A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000834A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u834a
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
AFF0
kCCCII
215474
kCNS1986
1-5774
kCNS1992
1-5774
kCangjie
TMTN
kCantonese
ging1
kCihaiT
1148.301
kCowles
1672
kDaeJaweon
1489.090
kDefinition
thorns; brambles; my wife; cane
kEACC
215474
kFanqie
舉卿
kFourCornerCode
4440.0
kGSR
0808i
kHangul
형:0N
kHanYu
10339.021
kHKGlyph
3439
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10339.020
kIRG_GSource
GE-494C
kIRG_HSource
HB1-AFF0
kIRG_JSource
J0-3755
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-F3EC
kIRG_KSource
K0-7B2A
kIRG_TSource
T1-5774
kIRG_VSource
VN-0834A
kJapanese
ケイ キョウ いばら
kKoreanName
2015
kJapaneseKun
IBARA MUCHI
kJapaneseOn
KEI KYOU
kJis0
2353
kKangXi
1031.381
kKorean
HYENG
kMandarin
jīng
kMatthews
1116
kMojiJoho
MJ021877 MJ021877:E0101 MJ021880:E0102 MJ021878:E0103 MJ021879:E0104
kMorohashi
H520:E0103
kNelson
0591 0689
kPhonetic
1585
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1835+140.3.6
kRSUnicode
140.6
kSBGY
186.08
kSemanticVariant
U+8346<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
580.07 62.10 588.11
kSMSZD2003Readings
jīng粵ging1
kTaiwanTelegraph
5427
kTang
*giæng
kTotalStrokes
9
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kXerox
260:376