U+823A "舺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

舺

U+823A "舺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in traditional and historical contexts, composed of the radical for "boat" or "vessel" (舟) on the left and the phonetic component "甲" on the right, giving it the pronunciation "xiá" in Mandarin. It originally referred to a type of ancient square-ended wooden vessel or barge, often associated with river transport in classical texts, and is related to terms like "舺舺" which describe boat hulls or the act of sailing. In modern usage, the character appears infrequently, though it is notably used in the place name "Wanhua" in Taipei, Taiwan, which was historically called "Manka" or "艋舺" (Bangkā) during the Qing dynasty, referring to the indigenous canoe-like boats once common in the area. Thus, U+823A preserves a cultural and linguistic link to maritime history and early Chinese nautical terminology.

General Properties

Code Point	U+823A
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	舺
HTML Hex Encoding	舺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x88 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x823A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000823A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u823a

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	D755
kCCCII	227B34
kCNS1986	2-3859
kCNS1992	2-3859
kCangjie	HYWL
kCantonese	gaap3
kDaeJaweon	1469.020
kDefinition	place name in Taiwan, Taipei; a boat
kEACC	227B34
kFourCornerCode	2645.0
kGB3	6957
kGB8	9415
kHanYu	53059.050
kHanyuPinyin	53059.050:xiá
kIICore	CT
kIRGDaeJaweon	1469.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53059.050
kIRGKangXi	1010.210
kIRG_GSource	G3-6559
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D755
kIRG_JSource	J1-567A
kIRG_KSource	K2-5656
kIRG_TSource	T2-3859
kJapanese	コウゴウ
kJapaneseKun	HUNE
kJapaneseOn	KOU GYOU
kJis1	5490
kKangXi	1010.210
kMainlandTelegraph	9154
kMandarin	xiá
kMojiJoho	MJ021404
kMorohashi	30411
kPhonetic	551*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+19727+137.6.5
kRSUnicode	137.5
kTaiwanTelegraph	9089
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	316:372