U+8859 "衙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
衙
U+8859 "衙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning a government office, a yamen, or a local official's administrative court in traditional Chinese society. Its structure combines the radical for "walking" or "going" with a phonetic component, reflecting its historical use in denoting places of authority and bureaucratic governance. This character appears in classical texts, place names, and terms like "衙门" (yamen), referring to the official residences and offices of imperial officials where legal and administrative duties were conducted.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8859 |
| 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 | 衙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 衙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA1 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8859 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008859 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8859 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B8C5 |
| kCCCII | 215748 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-664C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-664C |
| kCangjie | HOMRN |
| kCantonese | ngaa4 |
| kCihaiT | 1206.601 |
| kCowles | 2978 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1574.050 |
| kDefinition | public office; official residence |
| kEACC | 215748 |
| kFanqie | 語居 五加 魚巨 |
| kFenn | 763C |
| kFennIndex | 612.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2160.1 |
| kGB0 | 4935 |
| kGB1 | 4935 |
| kGSR | 0058s |
| kHangul | 아:0N |
| kHanYu | 20837.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yá(20) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 20837.070:yú,yá,yù |
| kHKGlyph | 3673 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1574.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 20837.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1109.240 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5143 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B8C5 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6A4B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F7AA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6437 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-664C |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8F6E |
| kJapanese | ガ ギョ ゴ ゲ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2964 |
| kJapaneseKun | YAKUSHO |
| kJapaneseOn | GYO GO GA |
| kJis0 | 7443 |
| kKangXi | 1109.240 |
| kKorean | A |
| kLau | 2301 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5895 |
| kMandarin | yá |
| kMatthews | 7224 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1999 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023876 |
| kMorohashi | 34061 |
| kNelson | 1630 |
| kPhonetic | 947 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6576+144.6.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 144.7 |
| kSBGY | 066.24 168.10 256.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 626.01 215.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yá粵ngaa4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5895 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 420.090:yá |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 253:160 |
| kXHC1983 | 1320.060:yá |