U+8591 "薑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

薑
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+8591 "薑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the ginger plant, specifically referring to the spice and medicinal root commonly used in East Asian cuisine and traditional medicine. This character is composed of a grass radical on top, indicating its botanical nature, and a phonetic component below. In modern usage, "薑" is often encountered in terms like "生薑" for fresh ginger or "薑茶" for ginger tea, and it appears in a number of classical texts and idioms that highlight ginger's warming properties and its role as a culinary staple.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+8591
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
薑
HTML Hex Encoding
薑
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x96 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8591
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008591
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8591

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
C1A4
kCCCII
215624
kCNS1986
1-752E
kCNS1992
1-752E
kCangjie
TMWM
kCantonese
goeng1
kCihaiT
1169.501
kCowles
1640
kDaeJaweon
1525.070
kDefinition
ginger
kEACC
215624
kFanqie
居良
kFenn
812E
kFennIndex
45.01
kFourCornerCode
4410.6
kGB1
8836
kGSR
0710d
kHangul
강:0N
kHanYu
53300.090
kHanyuPinyin
53300.090:jiāng
kHKGlyph
3545
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53300.090
kIRG_GSource
G1-7844
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C1A4
kIRG_JSource
J0-6928
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-CEBA
kIRG_KSource
K0-4B39
kIRG_TSource
T1-752E
kIRG_VSource
V1-655D
kJapanese
キョウ コウ はじかみ
kKoreanName
2015
kJapaneseKun
HAJIKAMI
kJapaneseOn
KYOU KOU
kJis0
7308
kKangXi
1061.090
kKarlgren
353
kKorean
KANG
kLau
899
kMandarin
jiāng
kMatthews
642
kMeyerWempe
1128
kMojiJoho
MJ022921 MJ022921:E0101 MJ022922:E0102
kMorohashi
32110:E0102
kNelson
4060
kPhonetic
607
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+6447+140.3.13
kRSUnicode
140.13
kSBGY
173.40
kSemanticVariant
U+8441<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant
"姜" U+59DC CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index
601.08
kSMSZD2003Readings
jiāng粵goeng1
kTaiwanTelegraph
5637
kTotalStrokes
16
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kVietnamese
gừng
kXerox
262:320
kXHC1983
0560.051:jiāng