U+6A8F "檏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+6A8F "檏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that falls under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block, representing a variant form of the wood radical aligned with simplicity or plainness, though its precise historical usage is obscure. It is composed of the "tree" or "wood" radical on one side and a phonetic component on the other, which together suggest a connection to unadorned timber or rustic materials. This character is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese, Japanese, or Korean writing, appearing instead in classical texts or specialized dictionaries as an alternative to the more familiar character "樸" which carries meanings of simplicity, plainness, or uncarved wood. Due to its rarity, it may not be supported by all fonts or software systems, and its encoding serves primarily to preserve historical linguistic records.

General Properties

Code Point U+6A8F
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 檏
HTML Hex Encoding 檏
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE6 0xAA 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x6A8F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00006A8F
C/C++/Java Escape \u6a8f

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 2D4558
kCNS1986 E-5527
kCNS1992 3-5527
kCangjie DTCD
kCantonese pok3
kHanYu 21301.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21301.070
kIRGKangXi 0556.260
kIRG_GSource GE-3E26
kIRG_HSource H-9670
kIRG_JSource JMJ-014572
kIRG_TSource T3-5527
kJapanese ボク ハク あらき
kKangXi 0556.260
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ014572
kMorohashi 15658
kPhonetic 1589*
kRSUnicode 75.13
kTotalStrokes 17
kUnihanCore2020 H