U+8856 "衖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8856 "衖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that historically refers to a lane, alley, or a small side street, often found in older urban layouts. It is closely related to the more common character "巷" (xiàng), which also means lane or alley, but "衖" carries a slightly more archaic or literary nuance and has specific usage in compound terms and traditional place names. In modern Chinese, it appears less frequently than its counterpart, yet it remains a recognized part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set, used in classical texts and certain regional contexts to denote narrow passageways within cities or between buildings.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8856
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	衖
HTML Hex Encoding	衖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xA1 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8856
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008856
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8856

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	DBC1
kCCCII	232D59
kCNS1986	2-4027
kCNS1992	2-4027
kCangjie	HOTCN
kCantonese	hong6
kCihaiT	1206.502
kDaeJaweon	1573.160
kDefinition	lane; alley
kEACC	232D59
kFanqie	胡絳
kFourCornerCode	2122.1
kHanYu	20832.020
kHanyuPinyin	20832.020:xiàng,lòng
kIICore	CT
kIRGDaeJaweon	1573.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	20832.020
kIRGKangXi	1109.150
kIRG_GSource	GE-4B78
kIRG_HSource	HB2-DBC1
kIRG_JSource	J1-5C2D
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7346
kIRG_KSource	K2-5E26
kIRG_TSource	T2-4027
kJapanese	コウ ゴウ ちまた
kJapaneseKun	CHIMATA
kJapaneseOn	KOU
kJis1	6013
kKangXi	1109.150
kMandarin	xiàng
kMatthews	2554
kMojiJoho	MJ023873
kMorohashi	34049
kPhonetic	693
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+15112+144.6.6
kRSUnicode	144.6
kSBGY	345.36
kSMSZD2003Index	215.05 625.10
kTaiwanTelegraph	5893
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	265:341
kXHC1983	1259.070:xiàng