U+8237 "舷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
舷
U+8237 "舷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the side of a ship or boat, specifically the bulwark or gunwale, and it is composed of the radical for "boat" (舟) combined with a phonetic component suggesting the sound "xian." This character is used in modern Chinese in words like "船舷" (chuánxián), meaning the ship's side or rail, and it also appears in classical texts and maritime contexts to describe the outer edge of a vessel. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, it represents a standard logogram shared across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, where it may carry similar meanings related to naval or nautical terminology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8237 |
| 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 | 舷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 舷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x88 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8237 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008237 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8237 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B2EC |
| kCCCII | 215444 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5C71 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5C71 |
| kCangjie | HYYVI |
| kCantonese | jin4 |
| kCihaiT | 1118.405 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1468.110 |
| kDefinition | the sides of a boat, bulwarks; a gunwale |
| kEACC | 215444 |
| kFanqie | 胡田 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2043.2 |
| kGB0 | 4747 |
| kGB1 | 4747 |
| kHangul | 현:0N |
| kHanYu | 53060.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53060.040:xián |
| kHKGlyph | 3391 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1468.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53060.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1010.130 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4F4F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B2EC |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-383F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F3C9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7A64 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5C71 |
| kJapanese | ゲン ケン ふなばた |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:4918 |
| kJapaneseKun | FUNABATA |
| kJapaneseOn | KEN GEN |
| kJis0 | 2431 |
| kKangXi | 1010.130 |
| kKorean | HYEN |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5304 |
| kMandarin | xián |
| kMatthews | 2664 |
| kMeyerWempe | 896g |
| kMojiJoho | MJ021397 |
| kMorohashi | 30403 |
| kNelson | 3872 |
| kPhonetic | 1623 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1907+95.5.6 C+1907+137.6.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 137.5 |
| kSBGY | 133.41 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 568.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xián粵jin4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5304 |
| kTang | hen |
| kTGHZ2013 | 398.090:xián |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 275:115 |
| kXHC1983 | 1246.060:xián |