U+7A8C "窌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7A8C "窌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that appears in classical texts, where its primary meanings include a deep pit, a hollow, or a cellar, often referring to a storage space such as a grain pit. In traditional usage, it can also denote a cave or a dugout, and in some contexts, it has been used as a phonetic loan or variant of other characters. This character is composed of the radical for "cave" or "hole" (穴) and the phonetic component "交" (jiāo), and it is considered an obscure character that is seldom used in modern Chinese but occasionally appears in historical literature and specialized dictionaries.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7A8C
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	窌
HTML Hex Encoding	窌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xAA 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7A8C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007A8C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7a8c

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	D2FA
kCCCII	226977
kCNS1986	2-315D
kCNS1992	2-315D
kCangjie	JCHHL
kCantonese	gaau3
kCihaiT	1000.101
kDaeJaweon	1292.270
kDefinition	pit, vault; store in pit
kFanqie	力嘲 匹皃 力救
kFourCornerCode	3022.7
kGB3	6357
kGSR	1114i
kHanYu	42726.110
kHanyuPinyin	42726.110:jiào,pào,liáo,liù
kIRGDaeJaweon	1292.270
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42726.110
kIRGKangXi	0864.290
kIRG_GSource	G3-5F59
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D2FA
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-019233
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-62EA
kIRG_KSource	K2-4F32
kIRG_TSource	T2-315D
kJapanese	キョウ ヒョウ リョウ ル ホウ コウ リュウ ロウ
kKangXi	0864.290
kMandarin	jiào
kMatthews	718
kMojiJoho	MJ019233
kMorohashi	25470
kPhonetic	870
kRSUnicode	116.5
kSBGY	154.49 416.16 436.12
kSemanticVariant	U+7A96<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	491.04
kSMSZD2003Readings	liáo粵laau4 jiào粵gaau3
kTaiwanTelegraph	8912
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	312:370