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Glyph for U+836F
Source: Noto CJK

U+836F CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​836F

U+836F 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 leaf of Dahurian angelica plant; medicine. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is yào.

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+836F offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Chinese herbology (traditional Chinese: 中藥學; simplified Chinese: 中药学; pinyin: zhōngyào xué) is the theory of traditional Chinese herbal therapy, which accounts for the majority of treatments in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). A Nature editorial described TCM as "fraught with pseudoscience", and said that the most obvious reason why it has not delivered many cures is that the majority of its treatments have no logical mechanism of action.

The term herbology is misleading in the sense that, while plant elements are by far the most commonly used substances, animal, human, and mineral products are also used, some of which are poisonous. In the Huangdi Neijing they are referred to as 毒藥 (pinyin: dúyào) which means toxin, poison, or medicine. Paul U. Unschuld points out that this is similar etymology to the Greek pharmakon and so he uses the term pharmaceutic. Thus, the term medicinal (instead of herb) is usually preferred as a translation for (pinyin: yào).

Research into the effectiveness of traditional Chinese herbal therapy is of poor quality and often tainted by bias, with little or no rigorous evidence of efficacy. There are concerns over a number of potentially toxic Chinese herbs.

Representations

System Representation
33647
UTF-8 E8 8D AF
UTF-16 83 6F
UTF-32 00 00 83 6F
URL-Quoted %E8%8D%AF
HTML hex reference 药
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 药
Pīnyīn yào

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-836F
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+836F CJK Unified Ideograph-836F
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+836F CJK Unified Ideograph-836F
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+836F CJK Unified Ideograph-836F
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+836F CJK Unified Ideograph-836F
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+836F CJK Unified Ideograph-836F
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+836F CJK Unified Ideograph-836F
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+836F CJK Unified Ideograph-836F
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+836F CJK Unified Ideograph-836F
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+836F CJK Unified Ideograph-836F
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+836F CJK Unified Ideograph-836F
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+836F CJK Unified Ideograph-836F
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+836F CJK Unified Ideograph-836F
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+836F CJK Unified Ideograph-836F
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 275635
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) TVMI
kCantonese (kCantonese) joek6
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) leaf of Dahurian angelica plant; medicine
kEACC (kEACC) 275635
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 4412
kFrequency (kFrequency) 4
kGB0 (kGB0) 5009
kHanYu (kHanYu) 53212.130
kHanyuPinlu (kHanyuPinlu) yào(407)
kIICore (kIICore) AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 53212.130
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 1031.381
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G0-5229
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) H-8978
kKangXi (kKangXi) 1031.381
kMainlandTelegraph (kMainlandTelegraph) 5522
kMandarin (kMandarin) yào
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 140.6
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 581.19
kTGH (kTGH) 2013:1423
kTGHZ2013 (kTGHZ2013) 428.110:yào
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 9
Traditional Variant (kTraditionalVariant) Glyph for U+846F U+846F Glyph for U+85E5 U+85E5
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) GH
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 1343.010:yào