U+4E37 "丷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
丷
U+4E37 "丷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and often misunderstood Han character that functions primarily as a graphic component or a variant form rather than a standalone word in standard modern Chinese. Traditionally known as "倒八字" or "inverted eight" due to its shape resembling the numeral eight turned upside down, it appears in historical texts and certain compound characters as a decomposition element, such as in the character "半" where it represents the upper portion. Its usage is largely confined to ancient Chinese scripts, Buddhist sutras, and specialized dictionaries, making it more of a typographic artifact than a living part of the vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E37 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 丷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 丷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xB8 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E37 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E37 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e37 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | XC |
| kCantonese | baat3 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0162.211 |
| kDefinition | “ears-out” component used in some Chinese characters (for example, 兑); archaic form of 八; kwukyel, an archaic hanja-based writing system used in Korea before the invention of hangul |
| kHanYu | 10042.091 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0162.211 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10042.091 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0080.121 |
| kIRG_GSource | GK-685F |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8BF9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-212D |
| kKangXi | 0080.121 |
| kKorean | HA |
| kMandarin | bā |
| kPseudoGB1 | 9369 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+13981+3.1.1 |
| kRSUnicode | 3.1 |
| kTotalStrokes | 2 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |