U+8226 "舦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8226 "舦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character classified under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, which is used in East Asian writing systems. This character specifically represents a traditional term for the "rudder" or "helm" of a boat or ship, and it is constructed from the radical for "boat" or "vessel" (舟) combined with a phonetic component. In modern usage, it appears primarily in historical or technical maritime contexts within Chinese literature, and it is less common in everyday writing compared to alternative characters like "舵" for the same meaning. Its Unicode encoding ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for text that includes this specialized nautical term.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8226
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	舦
HTML Hex Encoding	舦
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x88 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8226
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008226
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8226

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	252D40
kCangjie	HYKI
kCantonese	taai5
kCheungBauer	137/04;HYKI;taai5
kCheungBauerIndex	455.05
kDaeJaweon	1467.020
kDefinition	(Cant.) rudder
kGB3	6953
kHanYu	53056.140
kHanyuPinyin	53056.140:tài
kIICore	CH
kIRGDaeJaweon	1467.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53056.140
kIRGKangXi	1009.190
kIRG_GSource	GH-1284
kIRG_HSource	H-FD77
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-021381
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6C90
kIRG_TSource	T4-2F4F
kJapanese	タイ
kKangXi	1009.190
kMandarin	tài
kMeyerWempe	2929
kMojiJoho	MJ021381
kMorohashi	30377
kPhonetic	1289*
kPseudoGB1	9243
kRSUnicode	137.4
kSemanticVariant	U+825C<kMeyerWempe
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	H