U+68CF "棏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+68CF "棏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that historically refers to a wooden implement, specifically a type of wooden stick or a weapon, and appears in classical texts such as the Shuowen Jiezi, where it is defined with meanings related to wood or hitting. Its structure combines the "tree" or "wood" radical (木) with a phonetic component, suggesting a pronunciation roughly like "dé" in Mandarin, though the character has largely fallen out of common modern usage.

General Properties

Code Point U+68CF
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 棏
HTML Hex Encoding 棏
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xA3 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x68CF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000068CF
C/C++/Java Escape \u68cf

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 24406B
kCNS1986 E-3C3E
kCNS1992 3-3C3E
kCangjie DAMI
kCantonese dak6
kFanqie 陟革 徒得
kHanYu 21231.080
kHanyuPinyin 21231.080:dé,zhé
kIBMJapan FAE7
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21231.080
kIRGKangXi 0532.070
kIRG_GSource GE-3D2D
kIRG_JSource J14-2E7D
kIRG_KSource K2-3B32
kIRG_TSource T3-3C3E
kJapanese トク タク
kJIS0213 2,14,93
kJapaneseOn TOKU DOKU TAKU CHAKU
kJis1 3594
kKangXi 0532.070
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ014046 MJ014046:E0101 MJ014047:E0102
kMorohashi 14926:E0102
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+8496+75.4.8
kRSUnicode 75.8
kSBGY 515.33 529.45
kTotalStrokes 12