U+8251 "艑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8251 "艑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that refers to a small boat or skiff, often used in classical literature to describe a light, flat-bottomed vessel for river or lake travel. Its composition combines the radical for a boat or vessel with phonetic elements, reflecting its semantic connection to watercraft. While not commonly used in modern everyday Chinese, it appears in historical texts and poetry, where it evokes imagery of humble, leisurely navigation through waterways.

General Properties

Code Point U+8251
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 艑
HTML Hex Encoding 艑
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x89 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8251
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008251
C/C++/Java Escape \u8251

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 E74B
kCCCII 227B4F
kCNS1986 2-5334
kCNS1992 2-5334
kCangjie HYHSB
kCantonese bin6
kCihaiT 1118.604
kDaeJaweon 1470.130
kDefinition small boat
kFanqie 薄泫
kFennIndex 410.07
kFourCornerCode 2342.7
kGB3 6977
kHangul 편:1N
kHanYu 53065.090
kHanyuPinyin 53065.090:biàn
kIRGDaeJaweon 1470.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53065.090
kIRGKangXi 1011.430
kIRG_GSource G3-656D
kIRG_HSource HB2-E74B
kIRG_JSource J1-5724
kIRG_KPSource KP1-6CC2
kIRG_KSource K1-7227
kIRG_TSource T2-5334
kJapanese ヘン ベン
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseOn HEN BEN
kJis1 5504
kKangXi 1011.430
kKorean PHYEN
kMandarin biàn
kMatthews 5250
kMojiJoho MJ021424
kMorohashi 30483
kPhonetic 1042*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+22293+137.6.9
kRSUnicode 137.9
kSBGY 290.09
kSpecializedSemanticVariant U+6241<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph 9092
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kXerox 313:170
kXHC1983 0068.020:biàn