U+8878 "衸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+8878 "衸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a rare or historical term, often associated with the meaning of "skirt" or "hem of a garment" based on its radical composition of 衣 (clothing) and the phonetic component 介. While not commonly used in modern standard Chinese or Japanese, it may appear in ancient texts, classical literature, or specialized dictionaries where it refers to a specific type of traditional clothing or garment edge. In the Unicode standard, it is categorized under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a logogram that has seen limited but established usage in historical Sinographic writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+8878
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 衸
HTML Hex Encoding 衸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xA1 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x8878
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00008878
C/C++/Java Escape \u8878

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 232E25
kCNS1986 E-3372
kCNS1992 3-3372
kCangjie LOLL
kCantonese gaai3
kCihaiT 1210.303
kDaeJaweon 1578.130
kFanqie 古拜 胡介
kGB3 7017
kHanYu 53079.040
kHanyuPinyin 53079.040:jiè
kIRGDaeJaweon 1578.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53079.040
kIRGKangXi 1112.290
kIRG_GSource G3-6631
kIRG_JSource JMJ-023911
kIRG_KPSource KP1-7368
kIRG_KSource K2-5E36
kIRG_TSource T3-3372
kJapanese カイ ガイ
kKangXi 1112.290
kMandarin jiè
kMojiJoho MJ023911
kMorohashi 34140
kRSUnicode 145.4
kSBGY 385.16 385.39
kTotalStrokes 9