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. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+8278 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
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 (click value to copy)
Nº
33400
UTF-8
E8 89 B8
UTF-16
82 78
UTF-32
00 00 82 78
URL-Quoted
%E8%89%B8
HTML hex reference
艸
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
艸
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
CA 4A
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
CA 4A
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)
E4 87
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)
F5 AC
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
CA 4A
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
E7 E7
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
E7 E7
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
E7 E7
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)
F5 AC
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)
C6 48
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
C6 48
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 67 67 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 67 67 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 67 67 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 67 67 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 67 67 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 67 67 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)
1B 24 29 43 0E 75 2C 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)
F5 AC
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
E4 87
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
E4 87
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
E4 87
Pīnyīn
cǎo
RFC 5137
\u'8278'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u8278
C and C++
\u8278
C#
\u8278
CSS
\008278
Excel
=UNICHAR(33400)
Go
\u8278
JavaScript
\u8278
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{8278}
JSON
\u8278
Java
\u8278
Lua
\u{8278}
Matlab
char(33400)
Perl
"\x{8278}"
PHP
\u{8278}
PostgreSQL
U&'\8278'
PowerShell
`u{8278}
Python
\u8278
Ruby
\u{8278}
Rust
\u{8278}
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