U+68A0 "梠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+68A0 "梠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that also appears in Japanese kanji and Korean hanja, primarily meaning "eaves" or "rafters" referring to the overhanging edge of a roof. It is composed of the wood radical (木) on the left, indicating a connection to timber or construction, and the phonetic component 呂 (lǚ) on the right, which gives the character its approximate pronunciation in Mandarin. This character is used in classical Chinese texts and architectural terminology, reflecting its role in describing structural elements of traditional East Asian buildings. While relatively uncommon in modern everyday writing, it remains part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block in Unicode, ensuring its preservation for historical and linguistic studies.

General Properties

Code Point	U+68A0
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	梠
HTML Hex Encoding	梠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xA2 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x68A0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000068A0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u68a0

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	D5CD
kCCCII	223D33
kCNS1986	2-3631
kCNS1992	2-3631
kCangjie	DRHR
kCantonese	leoi5
kCihaiT	701.101
kDaeJaweon	0918.020
kDefinition	a small beam supporting the rafters at the eaves
kEACC	223D33
kFanqie	力舉
kFourCornerCode	4696.0
kGB3	3317
kGB8	9173
kGSR	0076e
kHangul	려:1N
kHanYu	21199.020
kHanyuPinyin	21199.020:lǚ
kIICore	BTJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0918.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21199.020
kIRGKangXi	0530.010
kIRG_GSource	G3-4131
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D5CD
kIRG_JSource	J0-5B71
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4B95
kIRG_KSource	K1-5E3E
kIRG_TSource	T2-3631
kJapanese	リョ ロ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:6961
kJapaneseKun	HISASHI
kJapaneseOn	RYO
kJis0	5981
kKangXi	0530.010
kKorean	LYE
kMainlandTelegraph	2632
kMandarin	lǚ
kMatthews	4282
kMojiJoho	MJ013995
kMorohashi	14862
kNelson	2394
kPhonetic	840
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+5204+75.4.7
kRSUnicode	75.7
kSBGY	256.23
kTGHZ2013	235.090:lǚ
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	GHJMT
kXerox	324:142