U+8256 "艖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

艖

U+8256 "艖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character classified as a logogram of the Han script, primarily used in historical or specialized literary contexts. Its meaning relates to a type of small boat or skiff, often depicted as a shallow, flat-bottomed vessel used for river travel or fishing. This ideograph combines the radical 舟 (boat) with a phonetic component to indicate both its semantic field and approximate pronunciation, which in modern Mandarin is read as "chā." While not commonly used in everyday simplified Chinese, it appears in classical texts and older literature, contributing to the rich lexicon of Chinese nautical terminology.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8256
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	艖
HTML Hex Encoding	艖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x89 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8256
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008256
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8256

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	EAF6
kCCCII	227B56
kCNS1986	2-5962
kCNS1992	2-5962
kCangjie	HYTQM
kCantonese	caa1
kCihaiT	1118.608
kDaeJaweon	1470.270
kDefinition	raft; boat; skiff
kEACC	227B56
kFanqie	昨何初加
kFourCornerCode	2841.2
kGB3	6975
kHanYu	53065.040
kHanyuPinyin	53065.040:chā
kIRGDaeJaweon	1470.270
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53065.040
kIRGKangXi	1012.080
kIRG_GSource	G3-656B
kIRG_HSource	HB2-EAF6
kIRG_JSource	J1-5725
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6CC9
kIRG_KSource	K2-5663
kIRG_TSource	T2-5962
kJapanese	ササイシャセ
kJapaneseKun	KOBUNE FUNE
kJapaneseOn	SA SHA SAI SE
kJis1	5505
kKangXi	1012.080
kMandarin	chā
kMeyerWempe	61b 3427g
kMojiJoho	MJ021429
kMorohashi	30508
kPhonetic	12
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+22294+137.6.10
kRSUnicode	137.10
kSBGY	160.20 167.48
kTaiwanTelegraph	5315
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	313:171
kXHC1983	0111.040:chā