U+68E2 "棢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+68E2 "棢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) used primarily in classical or technical contexts, often associated with the meaning of a "wheel" or "axle" component, specifically referring to the outer rim of a wheel in ancient Chinese woodworking or carriage terminology. This character belongs to the "Wood" radical (木) and is composed of additional strokes that suggest its structural relation to wooden parts. In modern usage, it is considered a rare or obsolete variant of characters like 輞 (wǎng) and appears primarily in historical texts, dictionaries, or specialized discussions of traditional Chinese technology. Its Unicode inclusion ensures that digital typography can represent this character for scholarly and archival purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+68E2
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 棢
HTML Hex Encoding 棢
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xA3 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x68E2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000068E2
C/C++/Java Escape \u68e2

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 24406E
kCNS1986 E-3C3D
kCNS1992 3-3C3D
kCangjie DBTV
kCantonese mong5
kCowles 2751
kDaeJaweon 0921.150
kDefinition the felloe or rim of a wheel
kFanqie 文兩
kHanYu 21232.110
kIRGDaeJaweon 0921.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21232.110
kIRGKangXi 0533.170
kIRG_GSource GE-3D2E
kIRG_JSource JMJ-014068
kIRG_TSource T3-3C3D
kJapanese ボウ モウ
kKangXi 0533.170
kMandarin wǎng
kMeyerWempe 1877 1885e
kMojiJoho MJ014068
kMorohashi 14956
kPhonetic 926*
kRSUnicode 75.8
kSBGY 312.33
kTotalStrokes 12