U+68F8 "棸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

棸

U+68F8 "棸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that appears in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, representing a wood or tree radical element. In modern standard Chinese, this character is considered rare or archaic, and its specific meaning is linked to ancient texts where it can refer to a type of tree or be used as a surname. Its composition combines the tree radical with a phonetic component, and it is read as "zōu" in Mandarin. Due to its limited usage, it is not commonly encountered in everyday writing, but it remains part of the encoded repertoire for historical and specialized textual applications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+68F8
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	棸
HTML Hex Encoding	棸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0xA3 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x68F8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000068F8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u68f8

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	D9C5
kCCCII	223D6B
kCNS1986	2-3C68
kCNS1992	2-3C68
kCangjie	SED
kCantonese	zau1
kCihaiT	704.502
kDaeJaweon	0922.210
kDefinition	surname
kFanqie	直由除柳
kFourCornerCode	1790.4
kGB5	3620
kGB8	1442
kHanYu	21224.080
kHanyuPinyin	21224.080:zōu
kIRGDaeJaweon	0922.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21224.080
kIRGKangXi	0535.020
kIRG_GSource	G5-4434
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D9C5
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-014091
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4C14
kIRG_KSource	K2-3B4A
kIRG_TSource	T2-3C68
kJapanese	シュウシュチュウジュ
kKangXi	0535.020
kMainlandTelegraph	8569
kMandarin	zōu
kMojiJoho	MJ014091
kMorohashi	14991
kPhonetic	295
kRSUnicode	75.8
kSBGY	209.52 323.39
kTaiwanTelegraph	8573
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	311:274