U+8873 "衳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8873 "衳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that historically referred to a type of lower garment or covering, specifically a short skirt or an apron worn in ancient times. Classified under the "CJK Unified Ideographs" block, its composition features the "衣" radical meaning "clothing" combined with a phonetic component indicating pronunciation. While not common in modern standard Chinese, it appears in classical texts and specialized dictionaries, primarily denoting a garment similar to a loincloth or a piece of fabric used for modesty in early Chinese culture.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8873
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	衳
HTML Hex Encoding	衳
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xA1 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8873
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008873
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8873

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

kCCCII	232E24
kCNS1986	E-3377
kCNS1992	3-3377
kCangjie	LCI
kCantonese	zung1
kCihaiT	1211.103
kDaeJaweon	1578.040
kFanqie	職容
kGB3	7020
kHanYu	53079.070
kHanyuPinyin	53079.070:zhōng
kIRGDaeJaweon	1578.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53079.070
kIRGKangXi	1112.200
kIRG_GSource	G3-6634
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-023906
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7372
kIRG_TSource	T3-3377
kJapanese	ショウ シュ
kKangXi	1112.200
kMandarin	zhōng
kMojiJoho	MJ023906
kMorohashi	34131
kRSUnicode	145.4
kSBGY	034.08
kTotalStrokes	9