U+825D "艝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

艝

U+825D "艝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in Japanese kanji, where it is known as "sowa" or "sou" and represents a type of snow sled or sledge, often used for traveling over snow. This character combines the radical for "grass" or "plant" with a phonetic component that hints at its pronunciation and meaning. It is considered a rare or obscure character, appearing mainly in specialized historical or literary contexts rather than in modern common usage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+825D
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	艝
HTML Hex Encoding	艝
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x89 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0x825D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000825D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u825d

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

kCangjie	HYMBS
kCantonese	syut3
kEACC	69675C
kFourCornerCode	2147.7
kHanYu	53066.161
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53066.161
kIRGKangXi	1012.281
kIRG_GSource	GE-492D
kIRG_JSource	J0-675C
kJapanese	そり
kJapaneseKun	SORI
kJis0	7160
kKangXi	1012.281
kMandarin	xuě
kMojiJoho	MJ021440 MJ021440:E0101 MJ021441:E0102
kMorohashi	30536 30536:E0101
kPhonetic	1248*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6311+137.6.11
kRSUnicode	137.11
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	J