U+654E "敎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

敎

U+654E "敎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a variant of the more common character 教, meaning "to teach", "instruction", or "doctrine", and it is frequently used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This specific glyph, which appears in historical and traditional texts, retains the same core semantic value as its simplified counterpart, often appearing in contexts related to education, religion, or moral guidance. Its structure consists of the radical 攴 (or 攵) on the right, suggesting an action or process, combined with the left component related to learning or filial piety, reflecting the cultural importance of transmitting knowledge and ethical values across generations.

General Properties

Code Point	U+654E
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	敎
HTML Hex Encoding	敎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x95 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x654E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000654E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u654e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCNS1986	E-3636
kCNS1992	3-3636
kCangjie	KDOK
kCantonese	gaau3
kCihaiT	602.601
kDaeJaweon	0821.200
kDefinition	teach
kEACC	214244
kFenn	191B
kFennIndex	48.05 50.13 51.01
kGSR	1167h
kHangul	교:0E
kHanYu	21463.040
kIBMJapan	FACD
kIICore	AKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0821.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21463.040
kIRGKangXi	0470.380
kIRG_GSource	GE-3B36
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-012975
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D0CE
kIRG_KSource	K0-4E67
kIRG_TSource	T3-3636
kJapanese	キョウコウおしえるおそわる
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	OSHIERU OSHIE
kJapaneseOn	KYOU KOU
kKangXi	0470.380
kKarlgren	143
kKorean	KYO
kLau	824
kMandarin	jiào
kMatthews	719
kMojiJoho	MJ012975
kMorohashi	13212
kPhonetic	426
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+8471+66.4.7
kRSUnicode	66.7
kSemanticVariant	U+6559<kLau,kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	276.11
kSMSZD2003Readings	jiào粵gaau3 jiāo粵gaau3 jiāo粵gaau1
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	KP