U+8596 "薖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+8596 "薖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji character that falls under the category of a plant or grass radical. It is primarily used as a component in classical texts and personal names, often associated with meanings related to a type of edible herb or wild vegetable, specifically the plant known as "kuai" in Chinese. The character appears in old dictionaries and literary works, but it is not commonly used in modern everyday language, making it a more obscure glyph primarily of interest to scholars of historical Chinese writing and calligraphy.
General Properties
Code Point
U+8596
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
薖
HTML Hex Encoding
薖
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x96 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding
0x8596
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00008596
C/C++/Java Escape
\u8596
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
EE48
kCCCII
232647
kCNS1986
2-5E74
kCNS1992
2-5E74
kCangjie
TYBB
kCantonese
gwo1
kCihaiT
1170.601
kDaeJaweon
1525.110
kDefinition
empty, hungry-looking
kFanqie
苦禾
kFourCornerCode
4430.2
kGB3
7272
kGSR
0018h
kHanYu
53280.050
kHanyuPinyin
53280.050:kē
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53280.050
kIRG_GSource
G3-6868
kIRG_HSource
HB2-EE48
kIRG_JSource
JMJ-022931
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-6FBE
kIRG_KSource
K2-5A23
kIRG_TSource
T2-5E74
kJapanese
カ
kKangXi
1061.150
kMandarin
kē
kMatthews
3399
kMeyerWempe
1409c
kMojiJoho
MJ022931 MJ022931:E0100 MJ022930:E0101
kMorohashi
32116 32116:E0100
kPhonetic
745
kRSUnicode
140.13
kSBGY
164.01
kSimplifiedVariant
kTaiwanTelegraph
5639
kTotalStrokes
14
kUnihanCore2020
HMT
kXerox
306:162