U+8448 "葈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+8448 "葈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used ideograph from the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) character set. In Chinese, it is traditionally pronounced as "xǐ" and refers to a type of plant, specifically the hemp or ramie plant (Boehmeria nivea), which is historically cultivated for its durable fibers used in textiles. The character combines the grass radical (艹) on top, indicating its botanical nature, with the phonetic component "枲" that suggests its sound. In modern usage, "葈" is largely obsolete, having been supplanted by more common characters such as "麻" for hemp, though it occasionally appears in classical texts and specialized lexicons documenting ancient botanical terms.
General Properties
Code Point
U+8448
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
葈
HTML Hex Encoding
葈
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x91 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8448
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008448
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8448
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kCCCII
232325
kCNS1986
E-442C
kCNS1992
3-442C
kCangjie
TIRD
kCantonese
saai2
kCihaiT
1156.105
kDaeJaweon
1504.170
kDefinition
Xanthium strumarium
kGB3
7413
kHanYu
53258.130
kHanyuPinyin
53258.130:xǐ
kIBMJapan
FB98
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53258.130
kIRG_GSource
G3-6A2D
kIRG_HSource
H-98F9
kIRG_JSource
J13-7B28
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-6E94
kIRG_KSource
K2-5853
kIRG_TSource
T3-442C
kJapanese
シ
kJIS0213
1,91,08
kJapaneseKun
KARAMUSHI
kJapaneseOn
SHI
kJis1
5649
kKangXi
1044.020
kMandarin
xǐ
kMojiJoho
MJ022299 MJ022299:E0101 MJ022300:E0102
kMorohashi
31386:E0102
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+8605+140.3.9
kRSUnicode
140.9
kSMSZD2003Index
591.15 327.13
kSMSZD2003Readings
xǐ粵saai2,sai2
kTotalStrokes
12
kUnihanCore2020
H