U+688A "梊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+688A "梊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obsolete Chinese character that historically combined the components for "wood" (木) and "earth" or "soil" implied in its structure, often interpreted as a variant or ancient form related to concepts of a wooden implement or a lever used in irrigation or lifting water in agricultural contexts. This character is not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese writing, and its precise meaning is largely confined to specialized lexicons or historical texts, where it may also represent a phonetic loan or an alternative graph for certain classic compounds. In the Unicode standard, it is encoded under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which supports ideographic characters from various East Asian scripts, though its practical usage remains extremely limited.

General Properties

Code Point U+688A
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 梊
HTML Hex Encoding 梊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xA2 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0x688A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000688A
C/C++/Java Escape \u688a

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

kBigFive D5D4
kCCCII 244041
kCNS1986 2-3638
kCNS1992 2-3638
kCangjie DLD
kCantonese dai3
kDaeJaweon 0917.040
kDefinition squeeze out of; extract
kFourCornerCode 5290.4
kGB5 3592
kHanYu 21210.010
kHanyuPinyin 21210.010:dì
kIRGDaeJaweon 0917.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21210.010
kIRGKangXi 0528.150
kIRG_GSource G5-437C
kIRG_HSource HB2-D5D4
kIRG_JSource JMJ-013968
kIRG_KPSource KP1-4BBB
kIRG_TSource T2-3638
kJapanese テツ デチ テイ タイ
kKangXi 0528.150
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ013968
kMorohashi 14835
kRSUnicode 75.7
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 HMT