U+8557 "蕗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+8557 "蕗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of edible wild plant often translated as "butterbur" or "sweet coltsfoot," and it appears in classical texts and modern usage primarily as a component of botanical names or traditional herbal remedies. Its glyph consists of the radical for grass (艹) combined with a phonetic component, and it is used in both Chinese and Japanese contexts, where it can refer to species like Petasites japonicus. In modern computing and typography, this character enables accurate representation of regional flora and historical linguistic works.
General Properties
Code Point
U+8557
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
蕗
HTML Hex Encoding
蕗
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x95 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8557
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008557
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8557
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
EE46
kCCCII
232645
kCNS1986
2-5E72
kCNS1992
2-5E72
kCangjie
TRMR
kCantonese
lou6
kCihaiT
1168.405
kDaeJaweon
1520.300
kDefinition
genus Leucaena; butterbur; Petasites japonicus
kEACC
232645
kFourCornerCode
4416.4
kGB3
7513
kHangul
로:N
kHanYu
53301.140
kHanyuPinyin
53301.140:lù
kIICore
AJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53301.140
kIRG_GSource
G3-6B2D
kIRG_HSource
HB2-EE46
kIRG_JSource
J0-4979
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-6F84
kIRG_KSource
K2-5963
kIRG_TSource
T2-5E72
kJapanese
ロ ふき
kJinmeiyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:7842
kJapaneseKun
FUKI
kJapaneseOn
RO
kJis0
4189
kKangXi
1058.020
kMandarin
lù
kMojiJoho
MJ022800 MJ022800:E0101 MJ022799:E0102
kMorohashi
31964:E0102
kPhonetic
826*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+3563+140.3.13
kRSUnicode
140.12
kSMSZD2003Index
600.10
kSMSZD2003Readings
lù粵lou6
kTGHZ2013
234.160:lù
kTotalStrokes
16
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT