U+65A8 "斨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
斨
U+65A8 "斨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that appears in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, signifying a traditional term used in ancient contexts. This character, while rarely employed in modern standard Chinese, historically denotes a type of ceremonial wooden staff or scepter, often associated with authority, ritual, or formal proceedings in classical texts. Its composition incorporates the radical for an axe or weapon, suggesting its original reference to a tool or symbol of power, and it retains significance in scholarly studies of paleography and early Chinese lexicon.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+65A8 |
| 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 | 斨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 斨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0x96 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x65A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000065A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u65a8 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | CCC2 |
| kCCCII | 223722 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2723 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2723 |
| kCangjie | VMHML |
| kCantonese | coeng1 |
| kCihaiT | 614.301 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0838.050 |
| kDefinition | axe |
| kEACC | 223722 |
| kFanqie | 七羊 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2222.1 |
| kGB3 | 2625 |
| kGB8 | 9107 |
| kGSR | 0727d |
| kHanYu | 32023.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 32023.110:qiāng |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0838.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 32023.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0479.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-3A39 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-CCC2 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-013079 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-489E |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-3830 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2723 |
| kJapanese | ショウ ソウ |
| kKangXi | 0479.090 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2446 |
| kMandarin | qiāng |
| kMeyerWempe | 3334a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013079 |
| kMorohashi | 13540 |
| kPhonetic | 121 |
| kRSUnicode | 69.4 |
| kSBGY | 177.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 283.04 409.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qiāng粵coeng1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2446 |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 303:171 |
| kXHC1983 | 0917.080:qiāng |