U+68E9 "棩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+68E9 "棩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is used in East Asian writing systems, primarily in traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean contexts. This logograph consists of the "wood" radical (木) on the left and a phonetic or meaning component on the right, though its exact definition and usage are obscure, with limited attested occurrences in historical or modern texts. Due to its rarity, it often lacks a widely recognized reading or standard dictionary entry, making it more likely encountered in specialized linguistic studies or legacy character encoding sets rather than everyday communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+68E9
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 棩
HTML Hex Encoding 棩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xA3 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x68E9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000068E9
C/C++/Java Escape \u68e9

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 D9D6
kCCCII 223E2F
kCNS1986 2-3C79
kCNS1992 2-3C79
kCangjie DLXL
kCantonese jyun1
kDaeJaweon 0922.020
kFourCornerCode 4290.0
kGB5 3665
kHanYu 21251.100
kHanyuPinyin 21251.100:yuān
kIRGDaeJaweon 0922.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21251.100
kIRGKangXi 0534.030
kIRG_GSource G5-4461
kIRG_HSource HB2-D9D6
kIRG_JSource JMJ-014076
kIRG_KPSource KP1-4C27
kIRG_KSource K2-3B3E
kIRG_TSource T2-3C79
kJapanese エン
kKangXi 0534.030
kMandarin yuān
kMojiJoho MJ014076
kMorohashi 14966
kRSUnicode 75.8
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 HMT