U+886C "衬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
衬
U+886C "衬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "lining" or "to line," as in the inner fabric of a garment, and by extension, it can also denote "to set off" or "to contrast," often used in compound words like "衬衫" (chènshān, meaning shirt) and "衬托" (chèntuō, meaning to serve as a foil or to highlight). This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, and its structure combines the radical for clothing (衤) on the left with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its core association with textiles and layering. In modern usage, it appears frequently in everyday vocabulary related to clothing, as well as in figurative expressions about visual or tonal contrast.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+886C |
| 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 | 衬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 衬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA1 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x886C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000886C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u886c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275822 |
| kCangjie | LDI |
| kCantonese | can3 |
| kDefinition | underwear; inner garments |
| kEACC | 275822 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3420 |
| kGB0 | 1936 |
| kHanYu | 53075.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | chèn(46) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53075.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1112.041 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3344 |
| kTGH | 2013:1292 |
| kKangXi | 1112.041 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6000 |
| kMandarin | chèn |
| kPhonetic | 64 277 |
| kRSUnicode | 145.3 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 627.06 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 042.100:chèn |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "襯" U+896F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0133.090:chèn |