U+8396 "莖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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U+8396 "莖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character primarily meaning "stem," "stalk," or "pedicel" of a plant, often extended metaphorically to denote a source or origin. It is commonly used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, where it appears in botanical, literary, and philosophical contexts. The character is composed of a radical for grass or plant (艹) atop a phonetic component, and its traditional form shares the same core meaning, though simplified variants like "茎" are used in modern Japanese and simplified Chinese.
General Properties
Code Point
U+8396
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
莖
HTML Hex Encoding
莖
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x8E 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8396
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008396
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8396
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
B2F4
kCCCII
215529
kCNS1986
1-5C79
kCNS1992
1-5C79
kCangjie
TMVM
kCantonese
hang1
kCihaiT
1140.503
kCowles
990 2116
kDaeJaweon
1493.140
kDefinition
stem, stalk
kEACC
215529
kFanqie
戶耕 烏莖
kFenn
427H
kFennIndex
78.10
kFourCornerCode
4410.1
kGB1
3005
kGradeLevel
2
kGSR
0831u
kHangul
경:0N
kHanYu
53217.070
kHanyuPinlu
jīng(15)
kHanyuPinyin
53217.070:jīng,yīng
kHKGlyph
3458
kIICore
ATHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53217.070
kIRG_GSource
G1-3E25
kIRG_HSource
HB1-B2F4
kIRG_JSource
J0-6833
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-CFD0
kIRG_KSource
K0-4C6C
kIRG_TSource
T1-5C79
kIRG_VSource
V1-6527
kJapanese
ケイ コウ ギョウ ヨウ オウ くき
kKoreanName
2015
kJapaneseKun
KUKI
kJapaneseOn
KEI
kJis0
7219
kKangXi
1034.090
kKarlgren
391
kKorean
KYENG
kMandarin
jīng
kMatthews
2761
kMeyerWempe
672b
kMojiJoho
MJ021993 MJ021993:E0101 MJ021995:E0102 MJ021994:E0103
kMorohashi
31052:E0103
kNelson
3942
kPhonetic
623
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+6364+140.3.7
kRSUnicode
140.7
kSBGY
188.37 188.59
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
583.01
kSMSZD2003Readings
jīng粵hang1,ging3
kTaiwanTelegraph
5449
kTang
*hɛng
kTotalStrokes
10
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kVietnamese
hành
kXerox
254:122
kXHC1983
0597.111:jīng
kJapaneseNewVariant
U+830E