U+8854 "衔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
衔
U+8854 "衔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally means to hold in the mouth, to bear, or to carry, and it also extends to meanings such as a title, rank, or official position, as seen in words like "头衔" (title) or "军衔" (military rank). This character is composed of the radical 彳 (step) on the left and the phonetic component 钅 (metal or gold) on the right, though its modern usage in Chinese commonly appears in formal contexts related to honors or organizational roles. In Japanese Kanji, it retains similar meanings, such as "bit" for a horse's mouth or, more rarely, the concept of a link or connection.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8854 |
| 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 | 衔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 衔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA1 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8854 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008854 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8854 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275D61 |
| kCangjie | XHOCM |
| kCantonese | haam4 |
| kDefinition | bit; hold in mouth, bite; gag |
| kEACC | 275D61 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2122 |
| kGB0 | 4746 |
| kHanYu | 20829.100 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xián(13) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20829.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1109.131 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4F4E |
| kTGH | 2013:2342 |
| kKangXi | 1109.131 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6902 |
| kMandarin | xián |
| kPhonetic | 566* |
| kRSUnicode | 144.5 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 398.080:xián |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "銜" U+929C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1248.030:xián |