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Glyph for U+8278
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U+8278 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​8278

U+8278 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 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, (with two horizontal strokes) consists of four strokes, while in Simplified Chinese and modern Japanese, (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.

, the upper component form of , is the 30th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while is listed as its associated indexing component.

Representations

System Representation
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: EUC-KR (hex bytes) F5 AC
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) E7 E7
Pīnyīn cǎo

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8278
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+8278 CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+8278 CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+8278 CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+8278 CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+8278 CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+8278 CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+8278 CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+8278 CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
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+8278 CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
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)
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+8278 CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+8278 CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
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+8278 CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
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+8278 CJK Unified Ideograph-8278
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) CA4A
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 227B77
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 2-226A
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 2-226A
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) UU
kCantonese (kCantonese) cou2
kCihaiT (kCihaiT) 1123.101
kCowles (kCowles) 4778
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 1475.060
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) grass; Kangxi radical 140
kEACC (kEACC) 227B77
kFennIndex (kFennIndex) 547.09
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 2244.7
kFrequency (kFrequency) 5
kGB5 (kGB5) 7124
kGB8 (kGB8) 1483
kGSR (kGSR) 1052c
kHDZRadBreak (kHDZRadBreak) ⾋[U+2F8B]:53172.010
kHanYu (kHanYu) 53172.010
kHangul (kHangul) 초:0N
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 53172.010:cǎo
kIICore (kIICore) AJKP
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 1475.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 53172.010
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1017.010
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G5-6738
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB2-CA4A
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-6767
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP0-EDF2
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K0-752C
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T2-226A
kIRG_VSource (kIRG_VSource) V1-6454
kJapanese (kJapanese) ソウ くさ
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) KUSA
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) SOU
kJis0 (kJis0) 7171
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1017.010
kKorean (kKorean) CHO
kKoreanName (kKoreanName) 2015
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 5335
kMandarin (kMandarin) cǎo
kMatthews (kMatthews) 6739
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 3415a
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ021480
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 30638
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 213 228
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+6322+140.6.0
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 140.0
kSBGY (kSBGY) 302.32
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 570.10
Semantic Variant (kSemanticVariant) Glyph for U+8349 U+8349Glyph for U+8279 CJK Unified Ideograph-8279
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 5335
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 6
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) HJKMPT
Quốc ngữ Pronunciation (kVietnamese) tháu
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0107.051:cǎo
Xerox Code (kXerox) 315:365