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U+8278 CJK Unified Ideograph-8278

U+8278 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+4E00 to U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as grass; Kangxi radical 140. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is cǎo.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+8278 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Radical 140 or radical grass (艸部) meaning "grass" is one of 29 of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 6 strokes. It transforms into 艹 when appearing at the top of a character or component. In the Kangxi Dictionary and in modern standard Traditional Chinese as used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, 艹 (with two horizontal strokes) consists of four strokes, while in Simplified Chinese and modern Japanese, 艹 (with a continuous horizontal stroke) consists of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 1902 characters (out of 40,000) found under this radical, making it the most commonly used radical.
艹, the upper component form of 艸, is the 30th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while 艸 is listed as its associated indexing component.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	33400
UTF-8	E8 89 B8
UTF-16	82 78
UTF-32	00 00 82 78
URL-Quoted	%E8%89%B8
HTML-Escape	艸
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	è¸
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes)	F5 AC
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes)	E7 E7
Pīnyīn	cǎo

Related Characters

Kangxi Radical Grass

Confusables

Kangxi Radical Grass

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8278
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Script	Han
Bidirectional Category	Left To Right
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Lowercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Uppercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Simple Titlecase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Titlecase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Case Folding	CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✔
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✔
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✔
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Other Letter
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✔
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Other
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✔
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Wide
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Ideographic
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	U
Big Five Mapping	CA4A
CCCII Mapping	227B77
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping	2-226A
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping	2-226A
Cangjie Input Code	UU
kCantonese	cou2
kCihaiT	1123.101
kCowles	4778
kDaeJaweon	1475.060
Unihan Definition	grass; Kangxi radical 140
kEACC	227B77
kFennIndex	547.09
kFourCornerCode	2244.7
kFrequency	5
kGB5	7124
kGB8	1483
kGSR	1052c
kHDZRadBreak	⾋[U+2F8B]:53172.010
kHanYu	53172.010
kHangul	초:0N
kHanyuPinyin	53172.010:cǎo
kIICore	AJKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1475.060
kIRGDaiKanwaZiten	30638
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53172.010
kIRGKangXi	1017.010
kIRG_GSource	G5-6738
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CA4A
kIRG_JSource	J0-6767
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-EDF2
kIRG_KSource	K0-752C
kIRG_TSource	T2-226A
kIRG_VSource	V1-6454
kJapaneseKun	KUSA
kJapaneseOn	SOU
kJis0	7171
kKPS0	EDF2
kKSC0	8512
kKangXi	1017.010
kKorean	CHO
kKoreanName	2015
kMainlandTelegraph	5335
kMandarin	cǎo
kMatthews	6739
kMeyerWempe	3415a
kMorohashi	30638
kPhonetic	213 228
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6)	C+6322+140.6.0
Radical Stroke Count (KangXi)	140.0
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode)	140.0
kSBGY	302.32
Semantic Variant	U+8349 CJK Unified Ideograph-8279
Taiwanese Telegraph Code	5335
Stroke Number	6
UnihanCore2020 Set	HJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation	tháu
kXHC1983	0107.051:cǎo
Xerox Code	315:365

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