U+8594 "薔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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U+8594 "薔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a noun in classical and modern contexts, most commonly denoting the rose flower, particularly species from the genus Rosa such as Rosa multiflora, and it is often found in compounds like "薔薇" (qiángwēi, meaning "rose"). Its radical is the grass radical (艹, representing plants), and its total stroke count is 16. Beyond its botanical meaning, the character can also appear in classical literary references as a symbol of beauty or fragrance and is historically used in poetic imagery and personal names, with variant readings in Chinese and Japanese where it retains similar floral associations.
General Properties
Code Point
U+8594
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
薔
HTML Hex Encoding
薔
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x96 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8594
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008594
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8594
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
C1A5
kCCCII
215626
kCNS1986
1-752F
kCNS1992
1-752F
kCangjie
TGOW
kCantonese
coeng4
kCihaiT
1170.301
kDaeJaweon
1525.090
kDefinition
rose
kEACC
215626
kFanqie
在良 所力
kFenn
770K
kFennIndex
47.03
kFourCornerCode
4460.1
kGB1
3930
kHangul
장:0N
kHanYu
53300.030
kHanyuPinyin
53300.030:sè,qiáng
kHKGlyph
3546
kIICore
ATJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53300.030
kIRG_GSource
G1-473E
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C1A5
kIRG_JSource
J0-692C
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E6FA
kIRG_KSource
K0-6D79
kIRG_TSource
T1-752F
kJapanese
ソウ ショク ショウ シキ ゾウ みずたで
kKoreanName
2015
kJapaneseKun
MIZUTADE
kJapaneseOn
SHOKU SHOU SOU
kJis0
7312
kKangXi
1061.120
kKorean
CANG SAYK
kMandarin
qiáng
kMatthews
677
kMeyerWempe
3338g
kMojiJoho
MJ022926 MJ022926:E0101 MJ022927:E0102
kMorohashi
32113:E0102
kNelson
4071
kPhonetic
122 1191
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+6451+140.3.13
kRSUnicode
140.13
kSBGY
176.40 526.36
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
601.05
kSMSZD2003Readings
qiáng粵coeng4
kTaiwanTelegraph
5638
kTang
dzhiɑng
kTotalStrokes
16
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kXerox
261:332
kXHC1983
0917.111:qiáng