U+68FC "棼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
棼
U+68FC "棼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the wood radical "木" on top and the phonetic component "分" below, which together suggest the concept of a dense, tangled, or chaotic arrangement of wood, often interpreted as "underbrush," "disorder," or "confusion." In classical Chinese texts, it is used to describe overgrown vegetation or metaphorical disorder, as seen in the idiom "茶棼" (chá fén) referring to chaos or disarray. While not a high-frequency character in modern Mandarin, it retains specialized usage in literary contexts and Traditional Chinese, carrying a nuanced meaning of messy accumulation or intricacy, without the dramatic typographical emphasis of dashes or bullets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+68FC |
| 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 | 棼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 棼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xA3 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x68FC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000068FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u68fc |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D9C8 |
| kCCCII | 223D79 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3C6B |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3C6B |
| kCangjie | DDCSH |
| kCantonese | fan4 |
| kCihaiT | 704.505 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0923.020 |
| kDefinition | beams in the roof of a house; confused, disordered |
| kEACC | 223D79 |
| kFanqie | 符分 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4422.7 |
| kGB0 | 7291 |
| kGB1 | 7291 |
| kGSR | 0471r |
| kHangul | 분:1N |
| kHanYu | 21226.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21226.060:fén,fèn,fēn |
| kIICore | BGT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0923.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21226.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0535.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-687B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D9C8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-756F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-4BF9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6252 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3C6B |
| kJapanese | フン ブン あさぬの たかどの みだす みだれる むなぎ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5095 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,85,79 |
| kJapaneseKun | MUNAGI |
| kJapaneseOn | FUN BUN |
| kJis1 | 3619 |
| kKangXi | 0535.070 |
| kKorean | PWUN |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2781 |
| kMandarin | fén |
| kMatthews | 1865 |
| kMeyerWempe | 482f |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014096 |
| kMorohashi | 14995 |
| kPhonetic | 353 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14642+75.4.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 75.8 |
| kSBGY | 110.52 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 322.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | fén粵fan4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2781 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 096.120:fén |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 303:321 |
| kXHC1983 | 0322.120:fén |