U+8857 "街" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
街
U+8857 "街" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of a street or thoroughfare, commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This ideograph combines the radical "行," which signifies movement or a path, with the phonetic component "圭," reflecting both its semantic field and pronunciation cues in certain dialects. In modern usage, "街" appears in words like "街道" (street) and "街头" (street corner), and it is integral to place names and everyday vocabulary across cultures influenced by Chinese script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8857 |
| 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 | 街 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 街 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA1 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8857 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008857 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8857 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B5F3 |
| kCCCII | 215747 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6179 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6179 |
| kCangjie | HOGGN |
| kCantonese | gaai1 |
| kCihaiT | 1206.503 |
| kCowles | 1430 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1573.180 |
| kDefinition | street, road, thoroughfare |
| kEACC | 215747 |
| kFanqie | 古膎 古諧 |
| kFenn | 48A |
| kFennIndex | 53.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2110.4 |
| kGB0 | 2954 |
| kGB1 | 2954 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0879o |
| kHangul | 가:0E |
| kHanYu | 20831.160 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiē(335) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20831.160:jiē |
| kHKGlyph | 3672 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1573.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20831.160 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1109.170 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3D56 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B5F3 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3339 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CDB6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4A36 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6179 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8F6D |
| kJapanese | ガイ カイ キ まち |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:2702 |
| kJapaneseKun | MACHI |
| kJapaneseOn | GAI KAI |
| kJis0 | 1925 |
| kKangXi | 1109.170 |
| kKarlgren | 458 |
| kKorean | KA |
| kLau | 788 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5894 |
| kMandarin | jiē |
| kMatthews | 619 |
| kMeyerWempe | 941 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023874 |
| kMorohashi | 34051 |
| kNelson | 1626 |
| kPhonetic | 710 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1431+144.6.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 144.6 |
| kSBGY | 092.53 094.23 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 625.09 215.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiē粵gaai1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5894 |
| kTang | gæi gɛi |
| kTGHZ2013 | 172.080:jiē |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 245:161 |
| kXHC1983 | 0576.030:jiē |