U+6860 "桠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6860 "桠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a forked branch of a tree or a crotch in wood, often used to describe the point where a tree trunk splits into two or more branches. It is a simplified character in modern Chinese, corresponding to the traditional form "椏", and appears in various contexts, including botanical descriptions and in the name of the "桠溪" (Yaxi) region in China. The character is composed of the wood radical (木) on the left, indicating its relation to trees, and the phonetic component "亚" on the right, providing a clue to its pronunciation, which is yā in Mandarin.

General Properties

Code Point	U+6860
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	桠
HTML Hex Encoding	桠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xA1 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x6860
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00006860
C/C++/Java Escape	\u6860

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

kCCCII	283D70
kCangjie	DMTC
kCantonese	aa1
kDefinition	the forking branch of a tree
kEACC	4C3B22
kFourCornerCode	4191
kGB0	7266
kHanYu	21195.041
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21195.041
kIRGKangXi	0526.211
kIRG_GSource	G0-6862
kTGH	2013:6958
kKangXi	0526.211
kMandarin	yā
kPhonetic	2*
kRSUnicode	75.6
kTGHZ2013	419.080:yā
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"椏" U+690F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1317.030:yā