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Glyph for U+8279
Source: Hanazono Mincho A Regular

U+8279 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​8279

U+8279 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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 cao.

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+8279 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with 5 other glyphs.

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 33401
UTF-8 E8 89 B9
UTF-16 82 79
UTF-32 00 00 82 79
URL-Quoted %E8%89%B9
HTML hex reference 艹
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 艹
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) 99 4A
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) 8F F5 F6
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) 8F F5 F6
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) DC B3
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) DC B3
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) DC B3
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) 7E 7B 5C 33 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 41 5C 33 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 50 75 76 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 50 75 76 1B 28 42
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) F8 96
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) F8 96
Pīnyīn cao
RFC 5137 \u'8279'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e\u8279
C and C++ \u8279
C# \u8279
CSS \008279
Excel =UNICHAR(33401)
Go \u8279
JavaScript \u8279
Modern JavaScript since ES6\u{8279}
JSON \u8279
Java \u8279
Lua \u{8279}
Matlab char(33401)
Perl "\x{8279}"
PHP \u{8279}
PostgreSQL U&'\8279'
PowerShell `u{8279}
Python \u8279
Ruby \u{8279}
Rust \u{8279}
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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8279
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Han
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-8279
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-8279
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-8279
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-8279
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-8279
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-8279
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-8279
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-8279
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-8279
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✔
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-8279
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-8279
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✔
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-8279
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-8279
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 287B77
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) XT
kCantonese (kCantonese) cou2
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 1475.070
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) grass; Kangxi radical 140
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 4400
kGB0 (kGB0) 6019
kGB1 (kGB1) 6019
kHanYu (kHanYu) 53172.011
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 1475.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 53172.011
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1017.011
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-5C33
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) H-994A
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J4-7576
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K2-5672
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T4-2153
kJIS0213 (kJIS0213) 2,85,86
kJapanese (kJapanese) ソウ くさかんむり
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1017.011
kMandarin (kMandarin) cao
kMatthews (kMatthews) 6739
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ021481 MJ030292:FE00 MJ030293:FE01 MJ030292:E0103 MJ030293:E0104 MJ021481:E0105
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 30639:FE01 30639:E0104
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 213 228
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+14197+140.3.0
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 140.0
Semantic Variant (kSemanticVariant) Glyph for U+8278 CJK Unified Ideograph-8278Glyph for U+8349 U+8349
Spoofing Variant (kSpoofingVariant) U+5344 U+535D
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 3
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GH
Xerox Code (kXerox) 324:322