U+68E6 "棦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

棦

U+68E6 "棦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) ideograph block, representing a term with limited modern usage but historically associated with the meaning of a wooden stake or a post used for tethering animals. This character is composed of the radical "木" (wood) on the left side, indicating its relation to wood or trees, and a phonetic component on the right, though its exact pronunciation and usage vary across historical Chinese texts and regional dialects. In contemporary writing, it is rarely encountered outside of specialized dictionaries or classical literature, where it may appear as an obscure or variant character in traditional Chinese script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+68E6
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	棦
HTML Hex Encoding	棦
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xA3 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x68E6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000068E6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u68e6

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	D9D1
kCCCII	223E36
kCNS1986	2-3C74
kCNS1992	2-3C74
kCangjie	DBSD
kCantonese	caang1
kDaeJaweon	0921.190
kFanqie	楚耕
kFourCornerCode	5205.7
kGB5	3580
kHanYu	21235.020
kHanyuPinyin	21235.020:chēng
kIRGDaeJaweon	0921.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21235.020
kIRGKangXi	0533.210
kIRG_GSource	G5-4370
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D9D1
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-014072
kIRG_KSource	K2-3B3D
kIRG_TSource	T2-3C74
kIRG_VSource	V0-3A36
kJapanese	ソウショウ
kKangXi	0533.210
kMandarin	chēng
kMojiJoho	MJ014072
kMorohashi	14960
kRSUnicode	75.8
kSBGY	189.08
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kVietnamese	ranh