U+88A9 "袩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+88A9 "袩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character classified under the radical for clothing (衣, often simplified to 衤) and consists of 11 total strokes. Its primary meaning relates to the hem or lower edge of a garment, specifically the front part of a robe or skirt, though it also carries an obscure historical connotation of a particular type of border or fastener on traditional apparel. This character is predominantly found in ancient or classical Chinese texts and is not commonly employed in modern standard Mandarin, making it more of a specialized glyph for historical or philological study rather than everyday communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+88A9
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	袩
HTML Hex Encoding	袩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xA2 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x88A9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000088A9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u88a9

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	232E37
kCNS1986	E-3870
kCNS1992	3-3870
kCangjie	LYR
kCantonese	dim1
kGB3	7032
kHanYu	53082.100
kHanyuPinyin	53082.100:zhé,chān
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53082.100
kIRGKangXi	1115.070
kIRG_GSource	G3-6640
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-023962
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7391
kIRG_TSource	T3-3870
kIRG_VSource	V0-4359
kJapanese	セン テン チョウ
kKangXi	1115.070
kMandarin	zhé
kMojiJoho	MJ023962
kMorohashi	34219
kRSUnicode	145.5
kTotalStrokes	10
kVietnamese	xiêm